VOTE SOCIALIST LABOUR!

I am nominally a candidate on May 1 in an unwinnable ward but the real hard work round here has been done by LRC member Janet Oosthuysen who is standing for Calder ward.
Janet deserves to win. No doubt about it. For the past six months she has been working her socks off and getting involved in the local community on issues from fair pay to social housing. Yet, predictably, and understandably, she's getting stick on the local Hebweb thanks to Gordon Brown's ever-deepening unpopularity and depressing tread rightwards day after day .
It's not fair , is it? Thousands of oridnary Party members want to see a return to Labour values, hundreds more are standing as candidates at our town halls up and down the country. But are we likely to wake up with a rosy glow of victory come May 2.?Probably not......
Yet we do have a chance of winning in Calder so to all those who are thinking of voting Green ( yes the candidate is very young and pretty but for heaven's sake get real) , spoiling their ballot papers ( pointless exercise) , or taking out their justifiable anger re Brpwn on a local Real Labour candidate, I say this. Wake up, smell the coffee, stop messing about and vote to get a socialist councillor elected. There, I said the s-word ......