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Len McCluskey is standing down a year early as leader of the Unite union. Unofficially that could be because of calls for an investigation into the union building a hotel and conference centre to save money on hotel bills, Len awarded the 7m contract to a friend, the cost rose to 54m before building commenced and the cost now stands at 98m
Gerard Coyne is standing, a moderate who has promised complete transparency on how the union spends the members cash. If he wins he'll work closely with Kier Starmer.
Steve Turner (endorsed by the Communist Party) and Sharon Graham (endorsed by the Socialist Workers Party) are also standing.
Best hope for Labour is that Coyne wins and they can start to heal some of the divisions, either of the other two will mean deeper divisions and more attempts to oust Starmer and Labour becoming even more unelectable.
Another important election for Labour.
Gerard Coyne is standing, a moderate who has promised complete transparency on how the union spends the members cash. If he wins he'll work closely with Kier Starmer.
Steve Turner (endorsed by the Communist Party) and Sharon Graham (endorsed by the Socialist Workers Party) are also standing.
Best hope for Labour is that Coyne wins and they can start to heal some of the divisions, either of the other two will mean deeper divisions and more attempts to oust Starmer and Labour becoming even more unelectable.
Another important election for Labour.
Greed in politics operates on the right and the left.
Union leaders are often empire builders and power hungry.
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Captain Nemesis
And McCluskey was an effing disgraceful dinosaur as well.
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Reasonable article in The Sun about it.
Workers of the world Unite... to beat the Left (the-sun.com)
Workers of the world Unite... to beat the Left (the-sun.com)
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Captain Nemesis
Nothing in the slightest bit reasonable about "terrorists’ friend Jeremy Corbyn" - its just a sad RW lie from a sad RW paper designed to feed into the sad RW delusions of their sad RW readers.
As they say, many Unite members are Sun readers, Brexit supporters and Red Wall Tory converts in the Midlands and the North, and they speak approvingly of Coyne because he is going to fight for immigration controls and says things like “Unite members who voted for Brexit expect the promise of an end to uncontrolled EU immigration to be kept, and will feel betrayed if it is not".
In other words Coyne is going to be another unacceptable right-wing dinosaur, anti-EU, somewhere on the racist/xenophobe spectrum, who would rather pander to the unacceptable right-wing dinosaur, anti-EU, somewhere on the racist/xenophobe spectrum opinions of a deplorable bunch of backward-looking, inward-looking reactionaries rather than campaign to change their opinions.
As they say, many Unite members are Sun readers, Brexit supporters and Red Wall Tory converts in the Midlands and the North, and they speak approvingly of Coyne because he is going to fight for immigration controls and says things like “Unite members who voted for Brexit expect the promise of an end to uncontrolled EU immigration to be kept, and will feel betrayed if it is not".
In other words Coyne is going to be another unacceptable right-wing dinosaur, anti-EU, somewhere on the racist/xenophobe spectrum, who would rather pander to the unacceptable right-wing dinosaur, anti-EU, somewhere on the racist/xenophobe spectrum opinions of a deplorable bunch of backward-looking, inward-looking reactionaries rather than campaign to change their opinions.
I know, great isn't it.
Professional Socialists have always liked their perks.
Trotsky always travelled 1st class and stayed in top hotels until the unfortunate incident with the ice pick.
Nice work if you can get it.
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.amp...e-union-employee-work-benefits-workers-rights
Trotsky always travelled 1st class and stayed in top hotels until the unfortunate incident with the ice pick.
Nice work if you can get it.
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.amp...e-union-employee-work-benefits-workers-rights
I heard he wasn’t a man either.
He was left wing or so it is claimed.
any way going back to the bye election , alot of hype over the result as there was when the liberals won the bye election before that
but irrespective of ones political views , it was important that labour won that election and held the seat
The UK needs a credible opposition party , and starmer could well be the bloke to do it
land slide majorities are imo not good for the country
but irrespective of ones political views , it was important that labour won that election and held the seat
The UK needs a credible opposition party , and starmer could well be the bloke to do it
land slide majorities are imo not good for the country
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Brigade77
Have you any thoughts on when he's going to start???
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Brigade77
We desperately need a new UK political party to represent the extreme center, along with it's own combat wing of lifelong pacifists.
Ideally, it would draw up its constitution from the 'Common Sense Handbook' & membership will be restricted to MEN & WOMEN only.
Ideally, it would draw up its constitution from the 'Common Sense Handbook' & membership will be restricted to MEN & WOMEN only.
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