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Time to start again.

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Labour Row With Unite Union Escalates






 

Enough of this pantomime between Miliband and McCluskey. The whole subject has descended into farce and both are to blame. It is time for Miliband to remember where the roots of the Labour party actually are and for McCluskey to understand that Unite is not his own personal vehicle for promoting himself.
Over recent years, certainly since the time of Blair, the Labour party has deteriorated significantly both in terms of performance and programmes. We now have the obscene spectacle of Labour voting with the Tories or abstaining on votes of major effect on working people and their families, the sick and disabled, and on claimant generally.
It is time for the remaining cords to be cut. The TUC have for many years, tried to breathe life into the corpse of the political party they formed so many years ago. From the vision of working class people in Parliament, representing working class families in the country, we have the reality of “Labour” MP's squabbling between themselves for the dubious honour justifying cuts in living standards and benefits, but done in a different way from the other parties. The House of Commons has reverted to being a club for the privileged 650, fortunate enough to be elected to a position which should be an honour rather than an ego trip with the benefit of expenses thrown in on top of a generous salary.
The TUC and its affiliated Unions, should today announce that all links, contributions and policy contacts with the Labour party are terminated forthwith, and that TUC candidates will stand as Independent or TUC at the next election. These candidates may and probably will loose their deposits at the election (following a sustained period of vilification in the press and other media), but in my view there is no alternative to starting again.
The rump of the Labour party can be left jockeying for position with the other parties on the fence of British politics, currently running thorough the slimy morass of sleaze and hypocrisy in the so called centre ground.

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