http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/27/unite-labour-possible-funding-cut "Unite" to consider cut in affiliation fees. Len McCluskey general secretary of Unite The Labour Party was destroyed by Blair, Mandellson, Brown, Campbell and the other conspirators of "New Labour", many of whom still sit in the Commons today. Len McCluskey is stating what many trade unions are now accepting as fact, rather than the rhetoric of Miliband minor and the rest of the party "leadership" are trotting out in seeking to preserve their positions. It is time that the TUC and all affiliated organisation followed the lead of Unite and dumped the Labour party completely.
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/31/ed-miliband-labour-union-funding-shakeup Ed Miliband's Labour-union shakeup Miliband will "look at the structure of Party Conference" The sooner the TUC dumps this current apology for a "Labour" party with its pathetic "leadership" the better. Milliband is sounding more and more like Blair with each passing day. The comment that he would, ""complete unfinished business of the past 20 years" and the proposal to introduce "sweeping reforms" designed to recast Labour's historic link with the trade unions, could have been written by Alastair Campbell. (With all the intrigue and conspiracies currently taking place, we may be excused for believing the phrase actually was produced from Campbell's pen.) Blair destroyed the Labour party and Milliband is just raking through the debris.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-accused-of-lurch-to-the-left-as-he-demotes-blairites-liam-byrne-and-stephen-twigg-in-shadow-cabinet-reshuffle-8864773.html Blow for Blairites: Liam Byrne and Stephen Twigg lose frontbench jobs Byrne and Twigg have gone.They will be missed about as much as a severe hang over. There are still more of the Blairites and Brownites remaining in the PLP who should be removed as soon as possible. Byrne you may remember was the shadow minister who "instructed" Labour MP's to abstain on the Work Fare vote and thereby assist Iain Duncan-Smith to vote through a retrospective change to the legislation and justified his actions by stating that, " sanctions are vital to give back-to-work programmes their bite". What is this man doing in the Labour party in any case?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/10/ed-miliband-tuc-speech-lukewarm-reception Ed Miliband's TUC speech receives lukewarm reception Having watched the whole of Ed Miliband's televised speech to the TUC yesterday,(10th September 2013) and the subsequent session of planted questions, it was noticeable how restrained the delegates were in their responses to the Labour Party's leader. This is not particularly surprising when you consider that Miliband's offering was more froth than content and that the speech was full of cliche, feeble attempts at humour and patronising remarks about the "backbone of Britain", "the vision of our founders"and "hearing from the people who are your members" and at the end of a twenty minute performance, a reference to his " vision" of a one nation Britain . A poor performance which offered little, other than a vague reference that a future Labour government would legi...
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-unions-should-realise--this-isnt-an-attack-8805135.html Donald Macintyre is off target when he suggests that "The unions should realise - this isn't an attack" Donald Macintyre: Independant Miliband seems to have forgotten, or is conveniently ignoring, what many other Labour party leaders since Clement Attlee, have also ignored. The relationship between the Labour Party and the TUC, and the wider Trade Union movement, is an historic one dating back to 1900. It should be a relationship where the Parliamentary Labour Party, (the MP's) should have as its primary objective the representation and well being of working people in this country. The same objective in fact as the TUC. In this context, “working people” is used in its wider definition, to include employed and unemployed, the disabled, the sick, benefit claimants in fact the whole spectrum of society. Over recen...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/17/labour-policies-len-mcluskey Labour must shift policies or risk ruin, says Len McCluskey Trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse is a very futile exercise. Len McCluskey, and the rest of the trade union movement, should recognise and accept, that the Labour Party, as the party of working people, is dead and that no amount of "reforms" or attempts at persuasion will repair damage done over the past decades and compounded over recent months by Milliband and the rump "Blairites". Stuck in the morass of the so called centre ground, indistinguishable from either from Conservative or Liberal Democrat, Labour is destined to become a marginalised collection of tired politicians with few policies and little support. It is time for the trade union movement to move on and field its own candidates to give an alternative to the current, no real choice political menu. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/13/bob-crow-labour-party_n_3591038.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Break ties with Labour and create a party that "speaks for working people". Like a married couple who have been arguing and bickering for many years, the TUC and the Labour party should recognise that they have come to the end of the road and that the best option for both parties would be a swift and preferably amicable divorce.I have been arguing for some time that the TUC should end the relationship with Labour and field its own candidates at elections under a manifesto which reprsents working people and social structure rather than the finance and business interests wwhich now are the main areas of concern of the Labour party. I left Labour many years ago when Blair, Mandelson, Campbell and Brown "reformed" the party and created a centre ground "one size fits all" political grouping indistinguishable from Tory or LibD...
http://thebackbencher.co.uk/why-im-leaving-labour/ The terminal decline of a once great party. Clause IV of the Labour Party Constitution: To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service . (deleted by Blair in 1995) They are all the same now I left Labour many years ago when Blair, Mandelson, Campbell and Brown "reformed" the party and created a centre ground "one size fits all" political grouping indistinguishable from Tory or LibDem and exchanged principle for populist expediency. Thatcher created a nation where "there is no such thing as society", greed and selfishness are good, hypocrisy is an acceptable characteristic and where th...