THE MADNESS THAT IS LABOUR continues. Remember the
shady dealings in Falkirk, where the UNITE union was accused of fraudulent
behaviour by signing up some of its members without their knowledge to the
Falkirk constituency Labour party in order to rig the selection process in
favour of Karie Murphy, a friend of the UNITE boss Len McCluskey?
When
the story broke, Ed Moribund, the 'leader' of the Labour Party, ordered an
inquiry, and the police were called in to investigate. On the back of the
Falkirk business Ed set in motion a package of reforms meant to keep the unions
at arm's length, including union members opting in to paying the party levy.
The unions went spare, and the GMB union only this week reduced the amount they
gave to the party by over £1 million.
Now
it has been announced that no rules were broken after vital testimony was
withdrawn by key witnesses. Karie Murphy, who was suspended by the party, has
been reinstated; but she has chosen not to stand as the Falkirk candidate for
the sake party unity.
SO WHERE DOES this leave the pitiful Moribund? Well,
his spokesperson has promised that the reforms will continue. As a 63-year-old,
and a Labour voter from 1968 to 2005[1], I
knew[2]
what the unions were capable of. The leadership of the biggest unions throughout
much of the 1960s and the 1970s had always been in the hands of the Left[3]
who were determined to impose a Marxist society on Britain; and many Left-wing
Labour party activists had shared loyalties, along with some of the members.
Many were clandestine members of the
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), the Soviet's official
representative in the UK[4].
The Labour party leadership has always been at
war with their union brethren. Like Ed Moribund, Labour Party leaders have always
had to court the unions in order to stand any chance of becoming leaders of the
party - and have always faced the charge of betrayal once in government.
The
block vote determines the party leader even to this day (as David Miliband
found to his cost); so the unions were always courted by potential leaders
using socialist rhetoric and promises of policies that matched their rhetoric -
all such promises of course were broken in order to remain a credible party of
government serving the national interest.
There
was one leader however who steered the party away from the unions more so than
any other. I believe Tony Blair has effectively destroyed this nation and its
indigenous peoples, as well as the one great institution that Labour created -
the NHS. He opened the floodgates to immigration incurring a population
explosion that has put ever greater demand on the NHS, schools, housing, and
welfare.
But
one thing he did that was good for the Labour party was to temporarily release
the stranglehold the unions had on the Party. It was through the abandonment of
the dystopian Clause IV[5] of
the party constitution, that helped Labour to become a party of government once
more.
As
far as the party he once governed was concerned; he did much good through this one
simple act than he ever he did for his country. But Ed Moribund has,
unfortunately, by making himself available to the unions when seeking to betray
his brother over the party leadership, has now restored the unions to the
limelight again.
[1] My
disillusionment with Blair ended in this year, although I had stayed loyal to
the party leaders rather than the party since Michael Foot's dark and abysmal
1983 challenge.
[2] As
many Labour voters of my age knew
[3]
One such leader, Jack Jones of the TGWU, has since been accused of working for
the Soviet Union
[4]
Apparently the Soviet embassy bought up much of the circulation of the Morning
Star to help keep it solvent.
[5]'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'.
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