tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30704611.post3025003092339825951..comments2023-05-28T10:59:57.169+01:00Comments on Jon's labour movement blog: UNISON Northern Region rebuts criticismJon Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779486527359048519noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30704611.post-69225918943596899532009-12-19T00:09:10.293+00:002009-12-19T00:09:10.293+00:00it is always an admission of defeat when people th...it is always an admission of defeat when people threaten disciplinary action rather than just putting the record straight!Dorothynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30704611.post-29889983341863298562009-12-18T22:50:16.244+00:002009-12-18T22:50:16.244+00:00things can sometimes get a bit vague but I seem to...things can sometimes get a bit vague but I seem to remember us setting up UUL sometime around 1999 to unify the CFDU and the SWP? The purpose was very much to do what it said on the tin, to unite the left in UNISON. At times we have been more successful,others less so. That being said I have enjoyed and believe I have contributed and gained from working with comrades from different traditions. As to why you stood for GS, I think that is your story to tell JonTomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30704611.post-1127737509422150222009-12-17T07:50:18.018+00:002009-12-17T07:50:18.018+00:00Good that you will now be explaining why you stood...Good that you will now be explaining why you stood for the GS position a few years ago. Will wait and see what you write with interest but will be nice in my response (if factually incorrect) as I have been told off (last night) by a mutual friend of ours. I was also instructed to be publicly nice to you?! I thought I always was? The comments (not from you) about the realationship between myself and the UL misinterprets history. It was the UL that asked me back in 2002/3 to stand under their ticket and not the other way around. I was Finance Convenor and won an election against R Styles in 1999 as an independent and served for 5 years. So someone has got their history wrong! In fact I lost the 2005 election because I went under the UL ticket?? I don't see how the SWP (splendid group of people as they may be) and Labourites can be in bed together?? Never understood that!!nick venedihttp://www.lawatwork.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com