Unite found guilty of entryism in Falkirk West

[LeMaquis 10]

Don't believe a word Joyce says, the bloke is a hypocrite. You said so yourself.

 

He accused Unite of being irresponsible. He must have sobered up a lot to use a word with 5 syllables.

[donuticus 10]

If only...

 

If the bickering were removed there'd only be two threads on the entire site. Both of which would be about why the police helicopter was overhead.

[puisseguin 10]

A poll of Unite members has revealed that more than half don't vote Labour despite the union being Labour's biggest donor.

 

In light of the recent bust up between McClusky and Ed Miliband over the unions conduct in trying to fix the Falkirk selection process where does this leave Labour funding if members don't want their subs supporting the party?

[maxmaximus 10]

A poll of Unite members has revealed that more than half don't vote Labour despite the union being Labour's biggest donor.

 

In light of the recent bust up between McClusky and Ed Miliband over the unions conduct in trying to fix the Falkirk selection process where does this leave Labour funding if members don't want their subs supporting the party?

 

But to be fare they probably don't vote for anyone.

[I1L2T3 10]

Miliband us trying to sort it out by allowing union members to opt out of the political levy. Rightly so too. It's obviously going to hit them financially. The danger is to get funding they will become just another party of big business because that is where the really serious political funding comes from. Unless of course the whole funding issue for all the parties is resolved in some other way which would be my preference.

[SevenRivers 10]

But to be fare they probably don't vote for anyone.

 

Working class, Labour heartlands, probably voting BNP if not voting Labour.

[puisseguin 10]

Miliband us trying to sort it out by allowing union members to opt out of the political levy. Rightly so too. It's obviously going to hit them financially. The danger is to get funding they will become just another party of big business because that is where the really serious political funding comes from. Unless of course the whole funding issue for all the parties is resolved in some other way which would be my preference.

 

Didn't Labour get much of its party funding from big business when Blair & Brown were in charge. I'm not sure that big business thinks too much of Miliband so he has to rely on the unions, but he seems to have fallen into the trap of being bought out by them and his struggles there could lead to him loosing that funding too. A bit of a disaster isn't he?

[Happ Hazzard 10]

Unions are a joke nowadays. They don't represent working-class people, just self-interested, middle-class public sector parasites.

[Mister M 1,625]

Unions are a joke nowadays. They don't represent working-class people, just self-interested, middle-class public sector parasites.

 

Like teachers, nurses and social workers?

[willman 10]

If i remember correctly in the heyday of Michael Foot and then Kinnock the majority of Union funding was from Socialist Party supporters.

[eckerslike 10]

If i remember correctly in the heyday of Michael Foot and then Kinnock the majority of Union funding was from Socialist Party supporters.

 

And in Tony Blair's day it was from Lord Sainsbury.

[-Call me Al- 10]

Working class, Labour heartlands, probably voting BNP if not voting Labour.

 

Nah, UKIP are the new BNP for the disenfranchised white lumpen.

 

Note how I chose the word lumpen instead of the term working class.