last minute (end of Dec. 2012) to join you might not be counted as a member for 2012 and can't vote in Feb. 2013. On top of their usual workload they now have to organize a postal ballot in case there is an election for leader. On their first try, they have to create a system which is seen to be completely fair and not vulnerable to tampering. They have got a lot of extra work this holiday season so BE NICE TO THEM. Send Shearer an e-mail from our darkened room and closed curtains,let him know that people are going to join the labour party not because they support him,but because they are disgusted with his and his 'troops' in the actions that he took against cunliffe and giving the membership the two fingered salute, our membership vote will help unseat him in feb, he needs to have confirmtion or he will assume it's because he is adored by all and sundry and he did the right thing re; cunliffe. This is a character that lives in his own fantasy world. I will join up with labour,my e-mail to him, will say the above. My apartment is commonly known as "the cave", and yes I did buy it precisely because it was long and therefore there would be a place that I could stick the computer screens here neither my eyes nor the screens got washed out. But these days with LCD's it isn't as bad. At work, I'm