In the First Past the Post election for General Secretary of Unite, I voted for Steve Turner. But I was not disappointed at the election of Sharon Graham, and I have certainly not been disappointed since. Today, she declared that "the remaining financial relationship with the Labour Party is now under review" because of the Coventry bin strike. The present Leadership has taken Labour from healthy solvency to near bankruptcy, and the unions have been funding union-busting Labour councils and indeed governments for far too long.
So, am I still a candidate for General Secretary in 2026? In principle, yes. Unite has still not disaffiliated from the ILGA, which calls for action to: "Eliminate all laws and policies that punish or criminalise same-sex intimacy, gender affirmation, abortion, HIV transmission non-disclosure and exposure, or that limit the exercise of bodily autonomy, including laws limiting legal capacity of adolescents, people with disabilities or other groups to provide consent to sex or sexual and reproductive health services or laws authorising non-consensual abortion, sterilisation, or contraceptive use."
The World Health Organisation defines adolescents as those aged between 10 and 19 years. This is a call to lower the age of consent to 10. Get my union out of the ILGA, and I would have little, if any, reason to oppose the reelection of its present General Secretary. But fail to do so, and I would oppose it in my own person. Join Unite Community here.
Doesn't George want it?
ReplyDeleteGeorge will be 72 in 2026.
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