John
I retired seven years ago and the outcome of this election will have absolutely no effect on me at all. My concern is that this is not a ballot between two or more people, any of whom is genuinely standing for the job. The membership is voting for CD or A N Other and that is not how elections should be held.
If CD is not reelected, the membership will have not have voted for the new Gen Sec. Frankly, the prospect of the NEC being in a position to choose the Gen Sec concerns me, why bother with elections for the members next time round at all?
Your resorting to insults confirms my suspicions that there is something not quite right about this set up as it is being presented.