Pick'n'Mix

Good old USDAW.

Now the largest union in the private sector and existing hardly, if at all, anywhere else, it successfully organised against Thatcher’s and Major’s attempts to destroy the special character of Sunday and of Christmas Day, delivering the only Commons defeat of Thatcher’s Premiership. Long may it continue to deliver victories such as that, and such as this latest for the former employees of Woolworths. But why it still wastes its money on Ed Balls and his TCP (Third Conservative Party), I have no idea.

When it comes to fighting for workers, their families and their communities precisely by supporting agriculture, small business, and a large and thriving private sector such as can only exist by means of extensive central and local government action, all in the spirit of the trade union banners depicting Biblical scenes and characters in order to hold out against forced working on Sundays and on Christmas Day, there is, at least potentially, a whole world elsewhere for the fully integrated union between policy work and campaigning work.