Trade unions often find it, shall we say, difficult to get on with each other.
But the PCS has decided today that it is going to fund its own parliamentary candidates. Meanwhile, Unite is well on the way to signing up five thousand new Labour Party members under its own direction, with, to the horror of the likes of Philip Collins, the full co-operation of the Leadership. Yes, it would now require that few people in order to exercise the increased influence that Unite wants.
It should be made clear that the PCS will stand someone against any Labour candidate not endorsed by Unite, which in turn will be prioritising the deselection of members of Progress, including those who have purportedly left it following its impending expulsion but who have failed to manifest a sufficient break with its ideology and agenda.
Absolutely vital, however, is to remember that there is no vacancy for yet another Marxist or merely Leftist party in this country. There has never been any shortage of those, only of any constituency for them.
Whereas any examination of the Mail and Telegraph newspapers confirms that the Coalition’s savage cuts in services and in spending power, the road to yet further economic ruin, are no more popular with Conservative supporters, Middle England, or what have you, then they are with anyone else.
At the recent local elections, Labour made significant inroads into the countryside beyond those parts where it always does well, and both Coalition parties lost to anyone else available in those corners of the Kingdom with little or no Labour organisation due to little or no history of voting Labour.
The Coalition of Resistance can and must include hitherto Conservative supporters, Middle England, the Mail and Telegraph newspapers, and what have you. As well as the countryside beyond those parts where Labour always does well. And as well as those corners of the Kingdom with little or no Labour organisation due to little or no history of voting Labour.
Whereas any examination of the Mail and Telegraph newspapers confirms that the Coalition’s savage cuts in services and in spending power, the road to yet further economic ruin, are no more popular with Conservative supporters, Middle England, or what have you, then they are with anyone else.
At the recent local elections, Labour made significant inroads into the countryside beyond those parts where it always does well, and both Coalition parties lost to anyone else available in those corners of the Kingdom with little or no Labour organisation due to little or no history of voting Labour.
The Coalition of Resistance can and must include hitherto Conservative supporters, Middle England, the Mail and Telegraph newspapers, and what have you. As well as the countryside beyond those parts where Labour always does well. And as well as those corners of the Kingdom with little or no Labour organisation due to little or no history of voting Labour.
I was a member of the PCS for many years until my retirement in 2005. I never paid to any political levy. And for most of that time was not a member of a political party.
ReplyDeleteThe PCS was itself a coalition having been NUCPS & IRSF and there were alraedy fault lines from the start. Labour man Douglas Houghton was the founding father of IRSF.
The simple fact is that the needs of government...including a Labour government is different fro a (public services strade union). The complicating factor is that people who work in trade unions are/were serving two masters...the Labour Party and their membership.
Two case histories: Tony Christopher from RAF to General Secretary of IRSF and so far as I know still alive and well in the House of Lords.
Take Liz Symons....oops Baroness Symons actually a daughter of the Inland Revenue Chairman.....who rose thru the ranks of the IRSF (representing low paid civil servanrts) to FDA (representing higher paid) to Tony Blairs cabinet as some type of junior minister......lecturing civil servants on pay restraint.
Essentially every member of PCS has a choice between two ideologically motivated "parties" the loony left or Broad Left slate was that they were of course totally useless. Indeed the Labour Party placemen/women were also useless.
But the saving grace of Serwotka and his like was that you wont vote for them and then see them turn against you when they get to the top of the greasy pole.
FJH