Labour's Angela Eagle condemns 'draconian' trade union bill
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| The Labour Front Bench. |
I watched the debate on BBC Parliament
channel yesterday (14th September 2015) and heard some very good
speeches from the Labour benches both front and back. Alan Johnson
(who I have been critical of in the past) made a particularly fine
speech likening interventions from the governments benches to
comments made by "Teletubbies" and suggesting that crayons
and paper for drawing be provided in a room adjacent to the chamber.
Angels Eagle's response to government
Business Secretary Sajid Javid's unconvincing comments opening the
debate, was superb as the front bench team of Jeremy Corbyn's new
shadow cabinet ripped into a pathetic government proposal for "Trade
Union reform", with vigorous speeches and interventions from the
Labour back benches.
The sight of a strong Labour party
opposition, attacking a weak government (something which has been all
too rare over recent years) demonstrated the extent to which the new
Labour administration will be a formidable force when their
collective strength is directed towards the enemy occupying the
benches opposite. The Labour party may have lost the vote, but there
is no shadow of doubt that they won the arguments. The second reading
debate of this vicious, vindictive and in Angels Eagle's words
"draconian" bill is but the first round of a fight which
will continue over the coming weeks and perhaps months and will
involve the Trade Union movement and people generally, mobilised into
resistance against this latest Conservative measure designed to
destroy the trade union movement.
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| The new Shadow Cabinet. |
The Labour party in Parliament owe it
to the people of this country to stand united, and together with the
trade union movement, lead the resistance to this pernicious piece of
government legislation, and all those malicious proposals which will
be presented to the Commons over the months to come. Each member of
the Parliamentary Labour Party must recognise and accept that their
enemy, and the enemy of the British people, sit on the government
benches opposite (only 36% of people voting actually cast their vote
for the Conservative party in May of this year) and not on the
benches around them. The British people will never forgive a Labour
party where individual ambition and factional self interest, stand
ahead of opposition to a vicious but clearly weak government. Let
last nights debate be the beginning of a united fight against a
“Bullingdon Club” gang, which is destroying large sections of our
economy, demonising sections of our people and dismantling the very
fabric of our society.
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