Further evidence that Mister Ed is ditching his connections to the unions indeed those very unions who backed him for the leadership prize and now wants to cut the union block vote. I mean, he doesn’t want to be seen too close now, does he? A signal to the establishment that he is ridding that pesky union influence. Laughably, he is proposing less union influence in leadership contests (erm, Mister Ed is that was the case back in 2010 then you would be following Miliband the elder) and reduced votes then he will give conference a bigger say over policies and the manifesto
Aww. Just aint that sweet and quaint. Us members get more say over policies and the manifesto which we should be getting at the moment. Oh, there is one that Mister Ed should be prioritising and that’s democraticising the Labour Party as opposed to this remoteness and lack of say.
So is anyone still out there thinking Mister Ed will be transforming the Labour Party into something vibrant, democratic and dynamic with social democratic policies instead of bland, boring recycled tired old reactionary NL? Mister Ed still wants to be the establishment’s friend rather than showing solidarity with the working class and reinforcing the links between the trade union movement and the Labour Party, ‘cos let’s not forget who laid the foundations for it.
As Richard Simcox from PCS rightly states: “Maybe instead of navel gazing and infighting with unions, Labour might like to defend public servants,”
Precisely….
Par for the course from the Labour leadership really, isn’t it? I suspect it doesn’t matter all that much who the individual in the job is. We’re Labour, we “modernise” and attack the unions, that’s what we do.
Purnell is back sadly with a bunch of ideas for welfare, he’s looking to become the welfare zar within Newer labour.
One idea of his to time limit JSA to two years and then give everyone a job, when asked what would the jobs be, he said we have lots of jobs, interesting he is also thinking the same way with sick and the disabled. We are hearing the army will be making all it’s disabled redundant first, this way it can keep it active soldiers employed,” least we forget”.
We do seem to have a Labour party in which welfare and workfare is the new style.
Purnell stated white workers feel neglected, but hold on black workers and Asian workers are what not counted.
According to some when they knocked on doors the white voters did not like welfare, or immgrants, so ok welfare is easy just open concentration camps, but hold on if Immgrant are baddies, why did Labour allow millions into the country and now complain that white people do not like it.
Tell you what has gone wrong the Middle class do not like Unions, the working class we are told do not like immgrants and Labour has to get the working class and the middle class back.
sadly the working class do not give a shit about labour, and the middle class swing voters have gone home.
Well thats my rant over.
Eventually the Unions will stop bank-rolling the Labour Party. What then?