DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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Christ on a bike! Are these elections not over yet?
I know it’s important, but for God’s sake you can barely get through your front door at night for all the canvassers and flyers for people you’ve never heard of and have no interest in meeting.
It’s like being under siege from a particularly annoying branch of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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