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.
this is just utter drivel. The political levy is voluntary and separate from your union subs. You have to opt in IIRC. Its a few pennies not half your subs.
Hysterical nonsense
David Milliband was fatally wounded (in a political sense) by that photo of him holding the banana and grinning.
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It would be brought out to belittle him every time he tried to be serious, so he might as well knock it on the head now.
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? I ask because if they aren't part of the 'labour party members' group then what are they?
There are good guides to how the electoral college is worked out on the net - maybe even linked to above, Has ernie not explained it on one of these threads?
Basically tho the labour party has individual members and various groups that are affiliated to it such as the unions.
How many votes does a union get and what determines this?
Unions do not get a vote. Individual union members vote as do MPs/MEPs and individual party members, however not all votes count equally. It's tripartite college system which values the three groups listed above at 33% each. As there are fewer MPs than members an single MPs vote is worth more than a single party members vote which is in turn worth more than a union members vote. The block voting by unions was reformed by John Smith (I think).
Surely the first politician to step down in order to spend less time with his family.
When is new New Labour obliged to actually come up with some decent policies on which decisions will be made. Wallace's speech the other day didn't really convery anything except "I'm not new Labour, but I'm also not Red Ed." Would've been more interesting if he'd gone for the Red Ed tag rather than the Wallace tag!!
missingfrontallobe - I suggest that there is no great hurry. there is no election imminent and there is a new leader to settle in.
Indeed. I'm beginning to wonder if some of the posters on here have realised that Labour isn't in power at the moment.
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.
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