The repetition of lies about the trades unions in todays editorial on Ed Milibands proposals make it clear that The Guardian is far from a supporter of the labour movement: No one can say whether Ed Miliband would have tackled this issue if his hand had not been forced by the furore surrounding Labours candidate selection in Falkirk last year...this is a compromise with the union leaders who partly created the problem. That will inevitably arouse suspicions. The block vote at party conference will stay and only be fully addressed in five years...Vitally, the changes break the power of union leaders to direct and control the way their members vote, since all votes will be issued and returned directly to the party, not via a union intermediary. It is potentially a huge blow to the politics of the secret fix. Very poor journalism by The Guardian which, although a FibDem paper, might have been expected to tell the truth about Falkirk after Unite the union has been twice exonerated, not to have implied interference in elections by unions when these are independently run, and might have mentioned that the block vote ended years ago.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:26:09 +0000
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