Wednesday 6 May 2009

Nothing To Lose But Your Chains

On The Daily Politics, Andrew Neil was annoyed that Unite officials were on course for safe seats as part of that union's bailout of the organisation still purporting to be the Labour Party. He clearly expects his guests, and the electorate at large to have fits of the vapours at the mere mention of a trade union. But the electorate at large, at least, has now recognised that the unions were right all along.

Not least is this age when little things like opinions are not deemed to matter for such purposes, a senior official of a major trade union is as qualified as anyone else to become an MP, and a lot more so than a girl who slept with David Cameron at Oxford. Or a boy who slept with David Cameron at Eton. Or the spawn of a duly ennobled pollster-to-order and a fashionable vanity publisher, that spawn herself straight out of the Oxford to which she was sent by one of the highest of Lenin High Schools.

The real scandal is that, safe seats or no safe seats, the unions are still funding the organisation purporting to be the Labour Party. Why?

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