"No Doubt" Labour Is Run By Unions & No Doubt They Commit Criminal Acts - Report

4th February 2014

Please discuss.

There is "no doubt" the Unite union recruited members to Labour in Falkirk in an effort to "manipulate" the party's selection of a parliamentary candidate, a leaked report says.

The publication of the previously withheld document comes as Labour's ruling body meets to discuss changing the party's relationship with unions.

Ed Miliband wants to change party leadership elections to a one member, one vote system.

Unite called the report a "stitch-up".

Last year the union - the UK's biggest - was accused of trying to rig the selection of the party's parliamentary candidate for Falkirk, to replace the outgoing MP Eric Joyce.


This is a political case study of the law of unintended consequences.

It began with a punch-up in a Commons bar involving the Falkirk MP Eric Joyce, who later stood down as a candidate for the next election.

And it sparked a chain of events that led to a deep and very public search of the Labour movement's soul.

This 21-page report - marked "strictly private and confidential" - offers an insight into the complex, often baffling series of links between Labour and affiliated unions, and the rules that have governed those links.

Its publication is an unwelcome reminder for the party of the mess in Falkirk: the claim, the counterclaim, the frustrated investigation, the lack of clear answers.

It's a gift for Labour's political opponents.

The 20-page report says "there can no doubt that members were recruited to manipulate party processes" during the selection of a candidate for the next general election.

It finds some union members were signed up without their knowledge and there were some signs membership forms appeared to have been forged.

The report also says there is "evidence that signatures were forged on either application forms or direct debit mandates or other documents".


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26026023

The Labour Party has now agreed to make changes and cut their criminal ties:

http://news.sky.com/story/1206452/labour-approves-trade-union-links-reforms

I've already posted this today Andy. They all ignored it. Like they do with everything they don't want to acknowledge - just pretend it doesn't exist.

It seems that way Tess.

If a BNP or UKIP guy had said something wrong, never mind committed heinous crimes against the electorate, then they'd be upset.

Is this a threat to democracy in the UK?

Could Labour and the unions be as big a threat as Pakistanis in authority?

Tess. wrote:I've already posted this today Andy.  They all ignored it.  Like they do with everything they don't want to acknowledge - just pretend it doesn't exist.

You need to update your records Tess.

I don't get it
Why aren't Unions allowed to have representative parties? that is rather undemocratic to deny them when so many corporate lobbyists pollute the system.

The Australian Labor Party, has always been open about its connections with the Union movement and its representation of normal working class Aussies.

All Politicians are Criminals. and to be fair Black market figures should be allowed to corrupt the system as much as the other business figures (Not at all in my opinion but some people think that Business people should be allowed to)

Exactly Veya. The Unions started the Labour Party. The Conservatives can have the lobbyists giving them money hand over fist so they can influence on behalf of big business, but how terrible the Unions have a voice through the Labour Party. It's just not cricket don'tcha know!