Soldato
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http://news.sky.com/home/politics/article/16150641
On the news today they had some Union bloke whinging about how Labour have announced that if they get in power again they won’t recklessly spend again and won’t reverse every cut made by the current government (obviously the unions are annoyed that no-one else is going to pay for their cushy pensions any more). It wasn’t the above video, but that’s a good starter if you don’t have a clue what I’m on about!
Now I totally get that Unions started out for right reasons of Workers Rights, and founded the Labour party. But there’s two things I don’t get:
LOL Unions?
On the news today they had some Union bloke whinging about how Labour have announced that if they get in power again they won’t recklessly spend again and won’t reverse every cut made by the current government (obviously the unions are annoyed that no-one else is going to pay for their cushy pensions any more). It wasn’t the above video, but that’s a good starter if you don’t have a clue what I’m on about!
Now I totally get that Unions started out for right reasons of Workers Rights, and founded the Labour party. But there’s two things I don’t get:
- They were basically saying that by funding the Labour party the Unions should/have got to chose Labour’s policies. Isn’t the whole buying of policies thing meant to be banned? Or is there an exception for Labour/Unions and it’s only bad when it’s private Businesses trying to buy policy from Conservatives by donations?
- The Union bloke was going on and on that Labour aren’t offering a real alternative (well duh, there is no money. No amount of wishing will magic up some money). If they don’t like the Labour party why don’t the Unions go and start another party? Call it New New Labour, Socialist something?
LOL Unions?