Soviet Shock

ASSEMBLED Nomads looked on in disbelief when at the end of the tour dinner Douglas Hudson announced that he was to appoint a new soviet.

Hudson explained that Alan Meldrum and Peter Crane had tended resignations whilst Clive Page (aka the Fraudster) was now in disgrace.

"I’m not getting any younger”

Not that any of us present had noticed.

"the time has come to appoint a new soviet” he continued.

Then as a deathly hush shrouded the room at the Tsar Nicholas Hotel in Scarborough, with a few carefully chosen words Hudson appointed Chris Nicholls (Smoggy) and Alan Docherty (The Doc). The murmuring which began with Docherty’s election became shrieks of nepotism as Hudson minor became the third new appointee. Indeed those Nomads present were left wondering whether another attempted coup might be in the offing, although with Docherty now part of the establishment this would appear unlikely.