Forces of Conservatism

So Tony Blair called the trade unions. And he was right. Just as it is taking the GMB to save and restore traditional pubs, so it will take USDAW to prevent the "relaxation" of the remaining Sunday trading laws for Boxing Day 2010, after which those laws would rapidly be repealed altogether. Thatcher's only Commons defeat was over Sunday trading, thanks to USDAW and to what were then the strong Christian and socially conservative tendencies within what was then the Labour Party. Of any party or none, such candidates urgently need to be returned in the spring.