None of the unions on strike today is affiliated to the Labour Party. But, as has often been explained here, Britain's most militant union has close ties to the Conservative Party. Readers in London, remember that the next time that there is a Tube strike.
Explantion, please.
ReplyDeleteThe Conservative Party quite recently welcomed, with some fanfare, John Marek, who was fiercely anti-monarchist and anti-hunting while Labour MP for Wrexham, and who went on to become the founder and only ever Leader of Forward Wales, a Welsh separatist, Welsh-speaking supremacist, economically Hard Left, unyieldingly Politically Correct, Tommy Sheridan-endorsed, RMT-funded party which was only dissolved in January of last year.
ReplyDeleteIf it really was: it is still given as his party on the list of former MPs with House of Commons passes, even though he is a Conservative Party activist. A fiercely anti-monarchist and anti-hunting, Welsh separatist, Welsh-speaking supremacist, economically Hard Left, unyieldingly Politically Correct, Tommy Sheridan-endorsed, RMT-funded Conservative Party activist? I only ask.