It was to be the best or worst moment of Jim’s career. Where his life’s work culminated in an act of reconciliation and solidarity or strengthened divisions and recrimination.
It had surprised him that the leaders of the regions had agreed to the meeting in the first place and, if he was successful, his name would forever be synonymous as the person who masterminded the Bank Holiday Accord which saved the union.
It wasn’t so much of a case of all the regional leaders getting into a room to hammer out an accord. All the teams of the regional leaders went into separate rooms to speak to each other on video conference calls.
At the point when no progress seemed to be made, Jim pointed out to the Northern Assembly team that all the artists seemed to be moving out of the North and that surel
