Commie union bigwigs vs Progress

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Teeheehee - this will be fun - bring on the popcorn!

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9336770/Unions-leading-Labour-up-blind-alley-by-leaning-further-to-the-left-says-Lord-Mandelson.html

I do hope McCluskey and Prentice win this one... the further left Labour are forced to go by the unions, the less electable they will become.

Liam Byrne has already been disposed of. Which Blairite will be purged next?

Schism's and splits come natural to the socialist. They have a stratified idea of what they want to achieve and, when their ideas don't work, it's never the fault of those ideas; it's down to wreckers and 'non-believers' both within and without the party. It's far easier to denounce, to banish (or to round up and to exterminate) your enemies than it is to address your own shortcomings. This attempt by the unions to force out the New Labour element of the party (and note the language being used) turns their back on the ideas which gave the movement three successive governments recently - the most successful era in their history - and takes us back to the chaos of the 70's.

To be facing these Muppets, Cameron must be the luckiest premier in British history.

I don't blame the Unions. They are in politics for the benefit of their members and working people, they are not in it for the ride. They have beliefs and want to fight for them.

Unlike Progress, the unions get most of their backing from their millions of members. That sounds more representative than Progress.

'Progress receives most of its backing from Lord Sainsbury, a leading donor to Mr Blair who removed financial support for Labour when Ed Miliband became leader.'

Lord Mandelson says of Progress
'?It?s forward-looking, it?s progressive, it?s modernising and it wants to commit to the best possible platform on which we can fight and win the next election. Perhaps that?s why the trade unions don?t like it.?

He doesn't seem to have a very positive view of the union movement, which was largely responsible for creating his own party, and which represents the rights of millions of working people.

I must admit, I much prefer something real and true to its roots called the
General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union, which has more than 617,000 members, rather than something progressive called 'Progress' which probably has nothing like the same membership.

On the other hand, 'Progress' has probably got some progressive PPEs from Oxford in it - people who understand the working class.

After all, they studied them.

But Progress took them to power, the Unions took them to ridicule.