Real Terms

You can now be sacked from the Labour front bench for saying that workers ought not to accept a real terms pay cut. Only the trade unions fund a political party in order for it to abuse them.

The people who fund the Conservative Party get what they want or they would not pay. They are paymasters, indeed.

The same goes for the handful of London legal moneybags who bankroll Keir Starmer, although they must presumably want things only within the Labour Party rather than in the country or in the world.

But no Labour Government has ever supported the unions, and the only Labour Leader ever really to have done so even in Opposition has been Jeremy Corbyn.

The ongoing destitution of the old industrial areas, especially the coalfields, is the only evidence that Neil Kinnock ever existed. Into this century, I was on strike against the last Labour Government.

It seems that breaking point is finally being reached. Roll on this year's Labour Party Conference. In Liverpool.