The Unions are Back
George Osborne gave the CCHQ boys and girls a pep-talk yesterday in which he asked them if they could perhaps, maybe, please, “work harder”, and it seems to have paid off. Today’s attack on Unite has played out better than any recent engagements with the Labour.
Clearly done at short notice their ”Charlie Whelan’s New Militant Tendency” dossier on the back of the BA strike is a comprehensive slamming of the choke-hold union money and officials once again have over the Labour Party. It says a lot about how far the Tories have really “changed” given their most proficient act this year has been old fashioned union-bashing.
Like the Ashcroft situation, Labour’s return to reliance on union cash was a ticking bomb. New Labour was built around keeping the unions at arm’s length, yet the leader of the financially stricken Labour Party has to sink to quiet mumbles on Woman’s Hour when he is forced to criticise them. Unite seem to have finally come to the conclusion the rest of the world reached long ago, that Gordon isn’t going to be around and they are willing to kick him while he is down with the timing of this strike. The unions are energised at the prospect of a Tory government and they mean business, with their £25 million war-chest, the only thing Unite will get out of this election is the chance to fill the green benches with their loyal stewards.
Wankers.
Merchant Bankers?
Now listen, here in Labour we need every penny of this money to save millions of babies being eaten by horrid Tories. It is our proud boast that not a single baby has been eaten by a Labour cabinet minister since 1997. After the win the election with a majority of 800 seats, we will make trade union membership compulsory, giving us even more money.
Mandy Pooh go and play with your oldest friend in a quiet room
WE’RE SMASHING THE UNIONS TOGETHER!
yes and the public REALLY gives a shit about choosing between Unions and Ashcroft and which is the sleazier in the teeth of a recession
hilariously unintentional comedy by the pompous pronouncement of todays CCHQ efforts as the best yet, because you say so
well that’s all right then Mr “Indepenedent” blogger
we’re so glad you approve of central office’s work
20 year old attacks will do no good, the public knows the score
amazing it still needs spelled out with only weeks to go but a measure of why the polls are what they are since some unbelievably still don’t get it
IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID!
Mandy, you’re losing your grip. It’s POOR People’s babies. Middle class people’s babies are too well fed and give probems with cholestrol. No Tory would be seen dead without a poor people’s baby stuffed and boiled on the plate.
Bankers and Union Reps. All wankers, although the later are envious, couldn’t-make-it-in-a-month-of-Sundays Banker wannabes.
have a look at the unite geneology of senior Acas people………how impartial can they be!!!!!beware BA
uaf uaf
Is this a reference to John Mann?
http://www.mannisms.com/2010/03/seconds-out-round-one/#comments
I still think this strike is a con.
In connivance with Unite, McRuin will “save Easter for hard working British families” yet.
After the election of course – loads of strikes.
Nope – apparently some long haul cabin crew can earn up to £70k which is a tad excessive for serving drink and stuff. Ex public sector you see – terms & conditions ‘you’re breathing union air’ etc etc, bleet bleet, drivel drivel.
I seriously doubt cabin crew are getting 70K a year unless they work all 365 days.
And even then I doubt it.
They definitely get 30k+ if they’re high up trolley dolls.
I think Virgin cabin crew are on a ceiling of 18 – 22k.
30K ain’t what it was but I agree the Virgin girls give much better service for much less money on those figures.
I don’t think the BA cabin crew have a leg to stand on if you compare their T&C with any of the other domestic carriers. If they want a job with the same T&C as a molly-coddled state airline they should bring their unique skillset to Air France.
They’re just striking themselves out of a job. I live near Gatwick. Maybe I should go on a one-day flight attendant’s course and become a ‘scab’. Just for something to do.
30K ain’t what it was – Its still more than this Professional Engineer with 10 years graduate experience who designs military helicopters gets!! No wonder the country is screwed when the high tech wealth creating industries get paid less than someone serving drinks!
They won’t get quarter of £70k working at Amstrad but we still expect them to vote Labour.
I am so pleased postman Pat has decided not to deliver on his proposed new dog tax after all.
I thought poodles were yap dogs not piy bull dogs Tony
Job done.
There was no proposal for a dog tax.
Surely there were proposals regarding dog a-tax?
Or dogger-tax?
Woof Woof vote labour Woof Woof
I think I’ll take my oversized boxer to No 10 and get it to do one of its rather large “designer turds” on the doorstep. Just like a wallnut whip – only smellier!
Cats. They are the fucking problem. Gluttonous, under-exercised, fat-cat capitalistic lumps of fur.
(flapflapflap) (perch) SKRAAAAWWWKK!!! (hsssssssss!)
….who crap all over the lawn and leave half-eaten baby birds in the patio plant-pots. And spit out hairballs into the fishpond.
Bastards!!!
The slogan worked for me at Cypress creek
Anyone got a link on Bercow getting the nod this afternoon? Bias by the Speaker?
and a wink ? say no more
waugh evening standard
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2010/03/speaker-accused-by-tory-mp-of-being-prompted-by-minister.html
Farage will kick the midgets arse out of the speakers chair come election day. The dwarf had better make the most of his last few days as Speaker. Perhaps a safe Labour ( if there is such a thing left ) seat beckons for the following GE for comrade Bercow?
Only if he joins Unite.
Dennis Skinner is a fucking lowlife
He looks like a skeleton, but without the bones these days.
Outlaw and ban the fuckers like they did in Australia not so long ago.
Shut them all fucking down, let the lawyers make some more cash by moving into the void.
They served their purpose back in sweatshop Victorian Britain but they are nothing but political vehicles for marxist crooks and gangsters now. Put them on the bonfire along with the quangos.
fawke the lot of them off
The role of unions is somewhat past but only because the State has intervened so much in everyone’s terms of employment, safety and whatnot. They have nationalised employment just as they have several banks. It has taken responsibility working conditions away from employees and employers and inflicted them upon taxpayers. It has done so to the benefit of corporations (taxpayers subsidising low wages for example).
I’d be content for private congregations of employees such as UNISON, UNITE, etc protecting themselves if the Government got it’s beaky nose out of wages, maternity leave and a whole load of other stuff and stopped bunging unions our money.
You can’t touch me I’m part of the Union.
Till the day I die….
and one helluva shout of Out Brothers Out.
Did the BBC ban ‘You don’t get me I’m part of the union’ cos it upset the bruvvers?
“We want this! And that!
We demand a share in this, and most of that, some of this, and fuckin’ all of that!
Less of that, and more of this, and fuckin’ plenty of this!
And another thing – we want it now! We want it yesterday, and we want fuckin’ more tomorrow!
And the demands will all be changed then, so fuckin’ stay awake!”
- Billy Connolly
Brilliant, reminds me of the damascene moment when I realised that all Trade Unions were shit, and that they’ve always been shit.
I could never understand why The Strawbs, an excellent folksy group, recorded the song because it didn’t seem in line with their folksyness.
But then, I thought the song was critical of Union corruption and power, whereas they probably thought it was a celebration of Union corruption and power.
How ironic that it’s been saved by German TV. I bet they’re laughing their socks off at the resurgence of the Unions.
Working with the Krauts in the 70s they would always kindly enquire ‘And how are the strikes going in the UK’. but we had to suffer all the pisstakes because they could supply us with bog rolls when we’d run out, due to the latest ‘Industrial Action’
Oh there you are!
shouldn’t that be in a higher pitched voice?
The summer of dysfunction.
I can see it all starting to take shape…
Unite doesn’t really care about anything but power. I guess that’s why they’ve targeted Willie Walsh. Strange if that power leads to BA going down the tube. Wanna buy a 777 dreamliner cheap?
not with the price of fuel fook that
One of ZaNuLabs most spiteful and unreported attacks on their own supporters, the people who mistakenly look to ZaNu to help them in poverty. Have been hurt the most and will be hurt most by the deliberate policy of a Labour government, to make poor people poorer, by increasing energy costs.
The kind of people Sara Twatter have lunch with at £30 a plate and £50 a bottle, are minorly inconvenienced over such trifles as soaring fuel and energy costs, that effect the price of everything we buy. No, the poorest have been deliberately left to struggle by these socialist bastards and whats more, their suffering will grow year on year as fuel prices are forced upwards, in a planned and disgusting attack on poor people and those on fixed incomes, for the benefit of government taxes and billionaire energy corporates.
It is nothing short of a scandal, Cameron could legitimately hang to socialists out to dry for their contemptable behaviour and reaped disaffected Labour votes by the shed load, however, true to form, Dave has bought the bus pass to frozen hill and agrees with everything the hateful socialists are doing to our most vunerable people.
nah you worry too much. the World Cup will grab everyone’s attention and nobody will get hurt. Come on Engerland…..
So no “modernisation fund” from the Tories?
The whole thing’s a put up job, IMO
I don’t think I can take much more of the personal insults against me. I’m a human being! I have feelings! Leave me alone!
Fuck off back over the border you simpering spineless Scottish c#%t
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We dont want him back! Can yee no just dump the fucker in the Thames!
Did you mean cunt ?
the key to success at the ballot box is to educate the masses – they do not realise how much shit we are in.
Brown does not believe it because he is blatantly mad, AND he lies when he does get it!
Bit by bit NuLab is beginning to unravel, but it is not quick enough, the clock is ticking……..
Sort it out, be more brutal and honest with the facts, scare everybody shitless, sleepless nights, cold sweats stop fucking about – tell it how it is.
IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE AND GOD HELP US ALL.
cook us something with gravy
Don`t forget the sweet at the end Nigella, it should look like a Chocolate tart, with loads of jizz oozing all over it.
Mrs T for Terminator was a robot designed by Skynet systems in the future and sent back in time to wipe out the unions and human resistance that opposed the creation of modern working practices and implementation of technology in the working place and society.
This was a danger to development and creation of Skynet that could not go unpunished.
3 billion human lives ended on 4 May 1979. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, Charlie Whelan, my son. The Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year 1954, before Charlie was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at Charlie himself when he was still a child. As before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for John. His name was Gordon Brown It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first.
my broadband is skynet am i here or there
Hahahahaha
Regrettably the entitlement, graft and emotional dysfunction viruses were thoroughly inculcated in the Broon robot software and Skynet sent back their clunkier female model, codename Beard, which came armed with the secret weapon: a terquibaiste.
I’ve long felt the Cam/Osborne axis was far too sane, happy, mature and balanced to comprehend the utter rage/hate filled, maladroit, ‘fear and smear everyone’, this country is all about me! me! me! nature of the Lord High Emperor and his henchmen.
This is great news though, especially Gove’s speech today, cracking stuff.
The weirdo loony, son of the manse craves the company of bullying, lying, brutish pieces of dog shit like McBride, Whelan, Campbell, unelected mortage fraudster filth like Little Lord Sodomite, seven home/two butler ‘what’s in it for me’ scum like Woodward, and pension robbers like Lord Paul.
Fucking great job Tory boys, go after the Trot vermin backing the enemies of England’s freedom
I like the jib of your cut
Your forgetting about the gangsters and the hairy Lesbian Brigades!
WHELAN WEARS A SYRUP….and it’s fuckin dyed, nobody’s barnet is that colour in real life innit! looks like Wella (shades of rust)….the curtains dont match the carpet.
New Labour is well and truly dead.
No they aint! They are just waiting for you to remove the crucifix and fall asleep!
should we be investing in garlic?
The one thing Joe Peeps doesn’t like is Unions. Misogynistic, nasty, marxist/bully-boy pricks don’t really do it for the man about to loose his job. They do have a base among the mostly useless public sector workers, but no doubt that is about to be remedied.
Carry on at your convenience (1971) being a case in point, although the true nature of the hard left scum agitator was a tad underplayed in favour of nudy wimmin
The best of the lot, and the only one not to make money at the box office.
They had a comedy to make
I’m investing in tuppaware coffins now.
We kicked Arthur’s arse.
And the Scots got Arthur’s Seat
Nick Grifffin at 0.11 lol.
LOL
Lol,
Yes I can confirm Griffin was knocking out Nazi salutes as a 14 year old, the one eyed cow’s cun’t
was that the manc Tomlinson at the beginning of that?
Do you boys think I’m sexier than Samantha Cameron?! The only thing Sam has over me is that her marriage is genuine. Apart from that, she’s not better than me. Oh, hold on. Getting a text from my lunch pal Lord Paul.
I like the size of your breasts Sarah can you let me grope them?
How much will you pay me Sarah?
Sarah I adore your tree trunk legs, they get me masturbatin’ furiously as i pontificate on the next stage of New Labour’s development
Sarah. Dont take this personally, but I couldn’t ever fancy you, because you have a thick neck, I simply dont fancy lasses with thick necks, and yours is thick. So, just to recap, you have a thick neck, and I dont…….
On the upside- the currency is recovering as the Tory vote recovers.
Headline missing from BBC ‘Petrol gets cheaper as more say they will vote Tory’.
CCHQ are useless aren’t they? I mean, they should have done this work, we;; years ago, so why didn’t they produce this dossier at exactly the time that the Cashcroft affair started. Useless tossers, has anyone mentioned to them that a rebuttal has to be rapid? Two weeks later is just too slow. Useless tossers.
Hey Dave are you listening? Oh right, OK so here is my solution: ban all strike action in public services. You know it makes sense because as soon as you start your slashing of public services after the election Whelan and his mates will bring the country to a stop. So be pre-emptive Dave, you now know the first law you must pass. But you won’t, because you are a useless tosser too.
Sad but true.
Get ready for mini bus loads of thugs fly postering at 4am in a town near you! And thats before the Asian candidates get their franking machines out!
Clearly Unite is running the show and they just have too much to loose. On the plus side Whelan is a Hunt of the highest order.
Personally I’d be on the phone begging Willie Walsh to embark on a round of surprise mass sackings. If he did so, I for one would never fly with another airline again.
Are you planning to go to Oxford to study? I might have some “friends” there who’ll like to visit you and finish off what didn’t happen before.
…and the share price keeps on rising. It’s clear to see how the City have predicted this to work out.
Great for my company as we have several AC heading to LHR on Fri night. The only possible losers here are BA CC.
And to the moderates of you I am genuinely concerned. The militant minority, led by the blinkered, self serving few, will screw you.
My only hope is that WW recognises the worth of the decent crew, and rewards you by leaving you on present T’s & C’s (crew complement reduction exempted) as it would appear he always wanted.
BASSA reps should hang their heads in shame.
Flying pickets?
Somehow, a minibus full of Diversity Co-ordinators doesn’t seem as intimidating as a minibus full of miners or steelworkers. No need to put the Army on standby, methinks.
Yeah. They’ll all disembark from the bus and start calling us racists and bigots and non-inclusive.
That’ll do it.
Don`t be so judgmental!
How do you feel about that? [tilts head in 'active listening' pose]
make sure I get them pens back
If they get really angry, they might wag their fingers at us. I’m scared….chortle.
You won’t be laughing when they begin… a grievance process against you.
Tee hee.
or Chavs in a really nippy whiny voice!
The Thatcher and Major governments had more than their share of lies and corruption. But they were amateurs compared to the outright relentless criminality of Labour the last 13 years. Blair, Brown et al have been the most corrupt bunch of bastards to ever hold power in this country. Brown deserves to spend the rest of his days a bitter and angry man in a deep depression about how he always wanted to be prime minister and only got the job by default for 3 years and was absolutely fucking shit at it and hated by the public.
To be fair – he wasn’t just shit PM. He was a really shit chancellor and I bet he was a really, really shit history lecturer.
This isn’t a three year blip of shit-ness. This a lifetime of incompetence. This isn’t the ‘Peter principle’ of being promoted to his level of incompetence. He’s been incompetent at every single level his entire fucking life.
Agreed but he still got the job what does that say about UK politics
Gordon Brown is the poster boy for ‘Fuck up and move up’.
Go back to his Scotchland Liebour roots for the underlying reasons.
Tie it all up with the Glaswegian m*afia/P*urcell shenanigans and you start to get a fuzzy outline of the true size of the Marxist-designed filth mountain that has poured out of the Highlands and into Westminster, totally programmed to wreck the country.
Where are the history boys? Where is the army?
O please please give us our Independence! We will take the nice Highland bit called the Lake District off your hands and you can keep all the Paki infested bits!
The “dossier produced on Whelan and the Union bullies
You say, Guudio, at “short notice”
What the F’ing hell have the Tories been playing at for all these years…
With a Government that is patently corrupt
A PM who is “titanically demented”‘
With his inner cirle who have spent years lying, smearing and frauding..
The Tory High Commend should have “dossiers” on all these slobs.
Just bring them out one by one
And make the British People see that they are governed by scum…
If the Unions are Back, are the Tories Sack and Gordon Crack?
You have no idea how much cock all this publicity is getting me. Sorry, I meant pussy. Gordon’s the biggest pussy of them all. In other words, he’s a massive, gaping c/unt.
Kinnock kicked militant out.
Unite are licking Liebour out
I remember trade unions….Red Robbo….Hugh Scanlon….Jack Jones….glam rock….hipster bellbottom trousers….Bagpuss….Morris Marinas….the Smash robots on telly….denim waistcoats…..it was crap.
the drugs were better
The weed wasn’t.
Power cuts……three-day week (I quite liked that one, I was at school at the time)….Mick McGahey….Austin Allegros…..bad winter weather….telephones with wires….Dairylea cheese triangles….you’re right, it was crap.
As Britons bundled up in sweaters inside their chill homes and offices and scurried at night through streets that had been curiously darkened, the country last week shifted to a three-day work week in yet another effort to conserve coal supplies and electrical power. The austerity measure, decreed by Prime Minister Edward Heath last month after Britain’s coal miners refused to work overtime pending a new wage settlement, means pay cuts of up to 40% for 15 million British workers, massive unemployment, and sharp curtailments in industrial production.
Except for such essentials as transportation, food supplies and medical services, half the country’s businesses and industries will work Mondays through Wednesdays, and the other half Thursdays through Saturdays. Shops and offices that can operate without using more than their alloted share of electricity are permitted to remain open. All over London last week, gaslamps and candles lighted counters as shoppers thronged to take advantage of new year’s sales.
it all started with I’m backing Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Backing_Britain
Wasn’t Heath like Gordoom simply following orders?
I’m just reading “When the lights go out.” A look at 1970′s Britain.
Not bad at all if a little bit lefty.
The astonishing thing I discovered was that for once in his life Tony Benn had an almost good idea. True, he would have screwed it up, but in its initial form it was correct.
If all the income from North sea oil was put into a separate investment fund, untouchable by governments, sort of like Norway did, then today the UK’s sovereign wealth fund would be £450 billion pounds. The largest in the world.
Enough to buy the banks 100% without tax increases. The UK could just own the banks as part of its assets without having to worry about getting its money back. Just more income to add to the fund.
But never mind. Instead we spent it all on …on …erm…think..think!….
er,…
Where the fuck is my money! Enough for a free house and car each..
Where’s the billions and billions from north sea oil?
Thatcher rolled it up and smoked it. That’s why she is outta her fooking head!
What an interesting idea! I remember at the time feeling a bit disturbed that this one-off bounty was being pissed away on German cars and German kitchens (they were all the rage then). It was one of my key objections to Thatcherism – it was so short-sighted.
The flaw in the case that you, Sir WW will easily have spotted, is that a certain vile Scots politician would simply have given the lot away to wasters who might, if bribed sufficiently, fall out of bed mid-afternoon, dispel the Class 1 haze with a Special Brew or two, then lurch off to the polling booth and put their cross in the correct box.
the fuckers are sitting on 10 times the amount northwest of scotland
I remember the 70s well, at the time it seemed to last forever but looking back now it all happened in a few minutes, wierd innit?
The 70s seemed to linger for an eternity when we lived it soley because it was so rubbish, the shite music and the shite clothes and the shite TV and the shite food, mind you I grew up in the fens so everything smelled of decomposed shite.
I was living in a parallel 70′s.so fucking stoned I can’t remember it.
Yes, the acid was far better too.
psssttt hello
Doctor Who was better then as well
Beer was cheaper though.
before fucking decimal 10 bob got 5 pints and chips.
From ConHome :
“59 Labour PPCs are members of Unite, 27 are members of the GMB and 19 of Unison.”
Couple of things here :
1. Baty Hattie Harpic’s all-women lists seem to be taking a back seat in favour of the tribal option.
2. All this “jobs for the brothers” stuff is going to put ZaNu deeply in the shite parliament-wise if/as/when there’s a season of unrest following a Tory victory.
You will get us
we’re part of the union
but not for expenses fraud
not for expenses fraud
Ah, the poor desperate Tories. At this stage and given this dire government they should be 20% ahead. Instead they’re scrabbling round in their 1970s strategy books. Thatcher destroyed the ambitions of the trade union movement – they are a joke.
I think you’ll find that Labour’s whole election strategy has been based on 1970′s class war. In fact their whole response to Brown’s economic meltdown has been to blame ‘the rich’ and put punitive taxes on them. Not to raise any meaningful amount of money but to appeal to the class-war mentality of the core vote.
And it’s not just desperation and ‘show’ from Labour. They really are back to the 1970s as evidenced by the union funds being used to parachute in union placemen over the heads of the dedicated lifelong Labour constituency members.
This isn’t the Tories raising the spectre of 1970s unionism. This is the Tories reacting to the de facto resurrection of 1970s class war and union-inspired social chaos.
My Heros favourite TV programme is “Life on Mars” in fact he wants to take the whole country back to the 70′s Tweet Tweet
@72.
Totally agree, at least under Blair, there was a feeling that most people could do well. Under this twat and his spinfuckers, the country has been split into the toffs and chavs. At the election it will boil down to a ‘class war’, The truth is though, the only way to remove Brown and Labour from government is to vote for the Tories, there is no other option, a vote for UKIP=Gordons home and dry, a vote for the Libs=Gordons home and dry. That’s the unpalatable truth.
I was speaking with a respected ex-politician (non trougher) who informed me that GB is genuinly loathed, half of what we read is just that! half. Half of how badly he is disliked within parliment from all sides. I genuinly believed him.
Are you from sHunthorpe Golden Wonder?
didnt golden wonder go Bust?
superceded By linekers Walkers crisps. Do keep up dear Boy!
Well alright! Well alright! Well alright!
I’d have made a very good prime minister, I believe, boyo.
Multi millionaire now boyo, socialism is great, for some.
We’re all right
We’re all right
Remember
Unite together to Bombard Bercow with Bulletts and Banish him from Buckingham.
Vote Farage, UKIP
You know it makes sense.
Following the defection of Conservative MP Quentin Davies to the Labour Party in June 2007, there were persistent Westminster rumours[13] that Bercow was likely to be the next Conservative MP to leave the party.
Despite the rumours, Bercow did not defect to the Labour Party. However, in September 2007, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that Bercow had accepted an advisory post on the Labour government’s review of support for children with speech, language and communication special needs.
EEEE Bye gum………we need more moneh to keep out those evil rich people…..
poor sarah has to pay £30 for a plate of spaghetti (that’s foreign muck) while you eat sausage in batter from t’chippy………
just puutin me feet up in rent free flat reet now!
Makes a change from room service in a 5 star hotel Derek.
Look er bruvvas(MOCKNEY ACCENT)if we smash BA you will be out of work but i wont be.
I cant even spell boarding for f–k sake
liksdiklik
I like to eat willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies willies
8—-) ((
Hot Tips for Labour election campaign team.
Change the name of the party to one people don’t associate with all that is shit.
Change party leader to one people don’t associate with all that is shit.
Change policies to ones that aren’t shit.
Make sound promises to have Mandeleson executed.
I hate the f*ckin leftie barstewards !!
JAM TOMMOROW BROTHERS
CHEESE SANDWICHES AND BEER ON THE PICKET LINES IN MY HI VIS JACKET WITH THE COMRADES OH YES
(CAVIAR AND CHAMPAGNE IN MY SILK DRESSING GOWN IN MY MANSION HOME LATER ON)
I shit in your well in scootland
I shit in your well in scotland then
I got modded for the same using one of guidos anti partake words
I hear BA have a few vacancies coming up lol.
Fully 14 Labour candidates have come from trade union employment. Three and a half times that number, 63, are the Tory candidates who are bankers. Who has done more damage more recently? And if public money really is being passed through the Union Modernisation Fund to the Labour Party (I am not convinced – that whole story has the feel of having been concocted by people perfectly, tribally ignorant of union and Labour financial arrangements), then that pales into the merest of insignificance compared to the funding of the Conservative Party by the bailed-out, taxpayer-dependent City.
No one has bailed out Ashok Kumar’s Teesside constituents in what would be recognised as a marginal seat, since it was Tory until 1997, if it were in the gin and jag belt, which returned almost only Tories last time without changing the Government, that is inhabited by the people whom those constituents bailed out by paying the full whack of tax that they rightly had no option but to pay. Who do the Tories’ paymasters and candidate factories think will bail them out next time?
Unions don’t make money, the leech of the taxpayer.
Bankers make money, quite a large chunk of the GDP in fact.
If you want to bitch and moan then blame your union buddies back in 1970 who destroyed British Manufacturing and made us uncompetitive on the world stage forcing us to rely on the banks in the first place.
Labour hated us just as much as Thatcher but at least she had the balls to face us down.
Where would we be today under Labour with it’s fancy environment laws and save the earth hippies?
On the same fucking scraphead Thatcher put us on, So don’t pretend you are a friend of mine you liberal scumbag.
Sir
You have a mouth like a sewer, please clean it with soap.
Good Day!
The teeny problem with that scenario is that the banks that did go bust but were bailed out – RBS, HBOS and Northern Rock were all based in Labour territory – Scotland and the North East. So while Labour is spinning that it was a bailout of rich southern folk it was actually a bailout of Labour voters.
Didn’t stop Labour ‘punishing’ the rich though eh?
Yet again the Labour spin and the truth are diametrically opposed.
No one has bailed out Ashok Kumar’s Teesside constituents in what would be recognised as a marginal seat, since it was Tory until 1997, if it were in the gin and jag belt, which returned almost only Tories last time without changing the Government, that is inhabited by the people whom those constituents bailed out by paying the full whack of tax that they rightly had no option but to pay.
You have been awarded First prize in the Incomprehensible Gibberish Competition.
Will you be writing the Labour manifesto?
Ahhh. Why it seems like just a couple of years ago and labour were strapped for cash and inviting the unions in for a chat.
Hang on! It was only a couple of years ago!
June 2008.
http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2008/06/having-old-friend-for-dinner.html
The Labour party has run out of cash. they need some fast from some old associates.
Brendan Barber takes on his more familiar role. Don Corleone.
He meets Gordon Brown
Brendan Barber: [leader of the trades union congress] “Why don’t you go to the business leaders, the celebrities and the Labour supporting millionaires? Why come to us?”
Gordon Brown: “What do you want of me? Tell me anything, but do what I beg you to do.”
Brendan Barber: “What is that?”
[Brown gets up and whispers in the TUC leader's ear] “Give me £50 million.”
Brendan Barber: “That I cannot do.”
Gordon Brown: “I’ll legislate you anything you ask.”
Brendan Barber: “We’ve known each other for many years but this is the first time you’ve ever come to me for counsel or for help. I can’t remember the last time you invited me to your house, Number 11 or Number 10, for an exchange of political views, even though we share many of the same aims and ideals from the old days. But, let’s be frank here. You never wanted our friendship and even our money. NuLabour were keen to distance themselves from the Unions and even you were afraid to be in our debt…”
Gordon Brown: “I didn’t want to get into electoral trouble. The voters.. the 1970′s and Arthur Scargill and the miners and all that… Tony wanted to avoid any connection.”
Brendan Barber: “I understand. You found paradise in the landslide election victory. You had a good deal of support, made a lot of new friends, the EU protected you and there were banks and finance houses and peerages for sale and you didn’t need friends like us. But, now you come to me and you say “TUC, CWU, GMBU,NUT give me funding. But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me Comrade.
Gordon,Gordon. What have we ever done to make you to treat us so disrespectfully? If you had come to us in friendship then your bank book would be overflowing. Your creditors would be paid this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make political enemies then they would become our enemies. And then, they would fear you.”
Gordon Brown: “Be my friend… COMRADE.”
Brendan Barber: “Good. Someday, and that day may never come, but it will probably come very very soon, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me. But, until that day, accept this cheque as a gift.”
Gordon Brown: “Grazie, Comrade.”
Brendan Barber: “Bene. Now kiss all our rings and get out.”
Your a made man and I claim my casino
Cap’n Calamity loves to feel the cut of my stump, Ooh Arrggh.
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‘Privately senior Labour sources are distancing themselves from the strike, claiming that it is being driven by the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association rather than the Unite leadership.’
BBC Landale
This suggests otherwise..are the leadership of Unite not masters of their own house, I doubt it. Expel BASSA and prove it
http://uniteba.com/
or,
http://www.unitetheunion.com/
“George Osborne gave the CCHQ boys and girls a pep-talk yesterday in which he asked them if they could perhaps, maybe, please, “work harder”,”
Must have seen the last Guy TV episode.
btw I see there was a big ECR parade in Riga yesterday. did anyone go?
Big deal. There are countries with smaller deficits than ours having general strikes with police and troops on the street.
Something for us to look forward to this summer eh?
Cameron will be bringing the boys back from the ‘stan just to keep the looters off the streets.
Thank you Gordon Brown.
Get some gas blowback guns and seek someone who can mod them for you, better you and your family safe than sorry.
5 airbombs strapped to a broomstick.
Do you feel lucky, punk?
I have been on preparing for the future for 2 years now,american but the facts are the same.
http://www.preparingforthefuture.org/index.php
Thanks, I thought it would be a crackpot site but actually it has some useful stuff on it.
Derek Simpson and Charlie Whelen are typical of the New Labour elite who have hijacked a party whose purpose is to stand up for the vast bulk of average, and below average, waged workers, ex workers and those who would work given a little assistance. They are all ego driven zealots prepared to sacrifice anything and anybody on the alter of personal ambition
As a semi skilled worker, i should be a natural Labour supporter but these arseholes represent nobody but themselves.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRIGHTTTTT
Get your shit together
Must Die
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8569124.stm
I see Charlie Whelan is happiest when is at his home in the Highlands and love to go fishing for “Brown Trout” in the Spey – is there a pun there?
Who pays Charlie Whelan’s wages? – is the Taxpayer funding him as Gordon Brown’s Minder or is he paid by Unite Union. Did the membership vote him in as their Political master?
Another thought – when union membership go on strike and loose pay – do the Union leadership loose their pay for the duration of a strike?
I don’t remember seeing any figures for Union Leaders pay, do they get expenses?
I wonder if there are any Unite members on this blog who have any answers.
Is Gordon now the UniteLiarbour party leader?
saw the unions on their uk tour in 70.s , brought the house down, well the country actually…….
Time after time the union rank and file membership have been used as expendable foot soldiers of the leftists political ambitions and time after time the union rank and file duly oblige their masters and happily walk off the cliff and into unemployment.
You would have thought that by now the workers might have worked that the union barons have never suffered the results of their industrial blackmail and sabotage, the barons get Ks and pensions and cushy jobs and the workers get life on the dole or work in a minimum wage burger bar if they are lucky.
Industry after industry and millions of jobs and whole towns destroyed by the union barons and for what?
For two generations the union barons have undermined UK industry to the point of collpase all for their own selfish petty ends, they get the rewards and the workers get life on the scrapheap.
Yet all they have to do is blame Thatcher and the bovine labour supporters lap it all up, perhaps the utterly stupid British worker deserved their fate.
WE ARE LENINS USEFUL IDIOTS
UNITED WE STAND COMRADE DIVIDED WE FALL IN THE HAIL OF P45 ISSUING AND MACHINE GUN FIRE.
Spot on, Cassandra King (is that a real name? Wow!)
Best example is the NUM. All followed the loony Scargill into a strike when coal stocks were enormous – the NCB needed a strike for cash-flow reasons and had absolutely nothing to fear from a prolonged shutdown. Anyone could see that. The loyal foot-soldiers were starved (literally) into submission, all in the name of fraternal ‘solidarity’.
And where’s the coal industry now? A few opencast sites operated by huge bulldozers and not much else.
Scargill won, though. Still got paid, but above all saw one of his ambitions fulfilled – an important British industry smashed. Result!
Spot on….
The Unite Barons have got far too big for ther boots.They are corrupt all the way up to the top.
They do not looking after their members interests,they are consumed with their lust for power and prey on weekness.
I can’t help but feel pity for the poor people who pay for the privalage of being screwed…
Lets take stock.
BA workers-
pay their union subs-
the union then gives these subs to Labour-
Who gave the BA workers taxes to the very rich money men-
Who Labour, the unions and the BA workers are so angry at-
Then when the BA workers go on strike,they lose pay,yet Labour still get the BA workers subs from the unions?
You couldn’t make it up.
That’s about it my dear, you forgot to add that we union bosses also get very rich at the expense of our workers.
No – it is worse even than that (and worse than what Charlie Whelan says above). Unite get a grant from HMG (us) to reconstruct themselves. Then BA workers pay them subs … now carry on as before ….
I just wanted my country to love me
don’t worry John,a few more months and all your Rambo’s will be rampaging in your country.
Labour will get wipe of the face of the earth at this election.
One one likes the Unions or their dirty protection racket money
The unions can afford to pay NuLab, thanks to the ‘Union Modernisation Fund’, a racket whereby the gummint (ie we) pay them to ‘modernise’ (WTF’s that? you may well ask).
Neat, innit? Tax income is paid to unions; unions pay NuLab; NuLab uses our money to oppress us.
And another thing – union sponsorship of MPs. Imagine the fuss if News International sponsored a dozen Tories.
Why isn’t BluLabDave attacking?
Presume that Calamity Bridges wasn’t involved in this operation!
Cash – a-ah – saviour of the universe
Cash – a-ah – he’ll save everyone of us
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Cash – a-ah – he’s a miracle
Cash – a-ah – king of the impossible
He’s for everyone of us
Stand for everyone of us
He’ll save with a mighty hand
Every man every woman
Every child – with a mighty Cash
Cash – a-ah
Cash – a-ah – he’ll save everyone of us
Just a man
With a man’s courage
He knows nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No one but the pure in heart
May find the golden grail
Oh oh – oh oh
Cash Gordon My Hero
wish I had the courage to be like Gordon
SHIT!!$&($£
You had me under your spell then
Gordon IS A MORON
Vote Labour – Get Unite!
Vote Liberal – Get Unite,(eventually
suckers)
Vote Conservative – Get Even
!!!!!!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to Guido
Attacking Whelan will do the Tories no good at all. They need some policies and some credibility. Only a few weeks left to get some together.
what? like all the new policies coming out of new labour – twat! Dog tax and walkies….
seriously ?? the tories are actually are going to try and run a 20 year old attack campaign with a few weeks to go and the polls what they are in a recession ???
Mandelscum won’t believe his luck
CCHQ finds the shotgun and aims squarely at it’s foot yet again
no wonder they lost a 28 point lead
I see so attacking Ashcroft and trying to make the link to Tory toffs was a stroke of genius but attacking those who bank roll Brown and making a link to the bad old days of Union over influence is of course utterly stupid.
Could you explain your logic?
It has been announced today that the Unite Party of Great Britain, funded and aided in its political machinations by the former labour party, will be fielding 365 candidates at the next election. Charlie Whelan, Life President and BAFTA award winner has announced this move early to enable voters to notice the difference between them and all other parties. He endeavours to win every possible seat, podium and lectern in his mission to rid the United Kingdom of its sanity, once and for all.
Don’t forget you read this first on Unite We Stand, Charlie Will Never Fall Communications (please mention us in team meetings and conferences).
Just saw something really bizarre.
Lady and Gent from the BBC with a guest presenter (Asian chap – didn’t catch his name). One Beeb presenter started going on about Labour and Unite, the Asian chap started to spin in a Labour ‘on message’ type of way.
The Beeb presenters didn’t let it go and opened up todays Daily Mail showing a double spread of the CCHQ bods shown yesterday by Guido (Whelan masks and swag bags), the Asian chaps eyes nearly popped out of his head.
Whatever He was expecting, it wasn’t this. He immediately started to say it’s all Tory spin, there’s no story, if there had been a story it’s already over etc etc etc. Besides he said, Labour was built on Unions, Unions allowed it to blah blah blah.
The female presenter ended the session with …
“Yes, but this is NEW Labour, they’re not supposed to be so close to Unions are they!”
Brilliant, that’s what I want from Aunty Beeb.
Show finished about 5:55ish
To be fair Guido, Unite did warn Liebore a couple of years ago about its intentions:
“While a fair amount has been achieved already in terms of influence
with the current Government, the upcoming General Election and the revival of the Conservative Party mean that the process of reclaiming the Labour Party for workers needs to be accelerated.”
unite statement to members 2009
Vote Labour – Get Unite!!!
Vote Liberal – Get Unite (In the end!)
Vote Conservative – Get Even!!