Unite leadership challenger Gerard Coyne says Len McCluskey has put Labour infighting above members’ needs
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| Gerald Coyne |
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| Len McCluskey |
Gerald
Coyne, another of the Quasi intellectuals so much in favour with the
Guardian and other "centrist" media who will grasp at any
opportunity, now matter how small or how unclear such opportunity may
be, in their incessant campaign to
remove Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership of the Labour party. In his
bid to replace Len
McCluskey
as General Secretary of "Unite", Coyne
accuses the Unite general secretary of
meddling
too much in Westminster politics,
a comment which in itself is reason enough for members to re elect
McCluskey for another term.
Had the TUC generally and other
specific Trade
Union leaders in
particular,
spent more time over the last 18 months "meddling" in
Westminster politics, then the Labour party may have been spared the
trauma of the second leadership election and the internecine warfare
which still simmers in the back rooms of the Commons and in the
proprietors editorial offices in many sections of the media.
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Coyne
argues that Unite together with presumably other Unions, are
"neglecting the crucial issues facing working people".
Where in fact, it is Coyne and others of his persuasion, who are
"neglecting"
the issues facing working people and thereby their own members with
their obsession to remove Corbyn.
It will come as no surprise to many, that Coyne has the support of
"Labour First" the splinter group with the avowed intention
of replacing the current Labour party leadership with one more in
tune with their own political position, and
a
number of
Labour
members of the
Parliamentary Party,
who have been openly hostile to Corbyn and to Len McCluskey for his
continued support for the party leadership. This overriding objective
of changing the leader, does not sit well with the notion of
"neglecting
the crucial issues facing working people".
The
essential truth is that
the
Labour party in Westminster was founded by the Trade Union Movement
with the objective to "to
establish a voice for working people within parliament"
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It
is therefore crucial that Unions generally do "meddle" in
Westminster politics, to address and campaign on "the
crucial issues facing working people",
for that is the role for which the
Labour party was created and the role upon which all Labour party
MP's should be directing their energies, rather than on the self
indulgent distraction of the leadership question.
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These
are some of the reasons why I shall be casting my vote for Len
McCluskey in the ballot taking place in March/April next year and
urge other brothers and sisters to support McCluskey also.
We
must not allow the continuing self interests of some elements within
the Union movement and the party, to detract from what our only
objective must be. We must address the
"crucial
issues facing working people"
in the workplace and in Westminster for that is the reason for the
Trade Union movement and for the creation of the Labour party.
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