Labour are gonna regret voting the younger brother in I reckon, Cameron and Clegg will eat him alive in the Commons… The fact he has the poshest and most nasal voice of any politician going is only going to hurt him more!
With David in charge, they may have been able to take the battle to the coalition govt but with Ed there, they’re gonna be screwed! The loony left will take charge again, with it’s hand firmly up Ed’s backside controlling every word he says!
What I really don’t understand is why/how Ed got elected to the post in the first instasnce.
The Unions have still got a hell of a lot of power, and they bought him basically… Forget the days of people getting off their arse and going to work, here come 3 day working weeks and strikes if there aren’t the right kind of teabags in the staff canteen any more again! 😉
This is where I don’t quite understand how the union vote actually works. What is the mechanism TJ, that gives them the right to vote in the first place?
MASSIVE donations… If you join a union, you have to pay a fee, typically £10 a month or so… At least 50% of that goes straight into funding the labour party. So when you think how many people out there are part of a Union, and how much money they give each year, you begin to see why the Unions hold so much sway over the labour party, as they are buying them basically! In my last company, out of peer pressure, over 80% of the staff there had joined the Union (UNITE in this case) as they felt they had to to be accepted by their peers. When I questioned a couple of my colleagues, they were open Tory supporters and were praying for Cameron to win the General Election… Yet they give £120 a year to the Union, more than £60 of that goes to directly funding the Labour Party… MADNESS!!! 😕