Coalition government....what if

[oompah]

Have any of the unions come out and said who they are backing?

The unions have lost their power, they are ineffectual, so does it matter?

I wonder if Willie Walsh will echo those sentiments.

 

[Lincsbodger]

Have any of the unions come out and said who they are backing?

The unions have lost their power, they are ineffectual, so does it matter?

Quite the opposite. UNITE and the GMB own labour, they control more than 55% of the remaining MP's because they fund them, and they supply 65% of Labours funding overall. The Unions might be in decline in the country, but within the labour party they own the place.

What they will do (According to leaked emails from UNITE) is eject the blairites and brownites, and then launch a campaign of strikes against the government to gain concessions. In the meantime, they will return the labour party to where it was in the 1970's, back to left wing socialism. Watch what happens at the party conference coming up soon.

 

[sooey]

MP's started going to the dogs in the late 1970's, although the last true conviction politician was Thatcher - she wasnt in politics to line her own pocket, she was in it to implement her vision of how the place should be run. Thatcher woudl have been horrified by the likes of the corrupt slimy toad Mandelson or the liars Ball and Campbell. At least in the Thatcher government people RESIGNED with good grace if caught out (eg David Mellors), unlike Mandelson, who has had to be dragged kicking and screaming from office TWICE, and plotted and schemed in the most dreadful undemocratic way at the last election to swing some sort of despicable back room deal to stay in power instead of accepting he and his party had been thrown out

Thatcher may not have enriched herself, I don't know. But she sure as hell allowed her idiot son to make millions from his "connections".
As for Mellor, he didn't resign with good grace he was shamed and ridiculed into it over quite a period of time by the redtops. Only going when his position became completely untenable, and was probably given no choice in the matter due to the ongoing embarrasment he was causing the government.

 

[sooey]

With regards to Mellor this is from wickipedia .....

In July 1992, Mellor was involved in a kiss and tell scandal in which actress Antonia de Sancha sold her story of Mellor's extra-marital affair with her, for £30,000. Their conversation had been recorded without his consent, but it turned out bugging your own property, as de Sancha's landlord, Nick Philp, [3] had done, was not illegal. The publicist Max Clifford told the story that Mellor had asked to make love to her whilst he was dressed in his Chelsea F.C. kit, a story that appeared on the front page of The Sun newspaper. Another allegation was de Sancha's sucking of one or more of his toes.

He managed to survive in office after this ridicule, though it allowed Fleet Street and the tabloids to round on Mellor. The satirical programme Spitting Image portrayed Mellor as having halitosis, with a green plume emanating from the puppet's mouth. Evidence emerged that he had enjoyed a free holiday in August 1990 as the guest of Mona Bauwens, a daughter of the Palestine Liberation Organization official Jaweed al-Ghussein, and another paid for by the ruler of Abu Dhabi. It was this that led to his resignation rather than the earlier affair. After three weeks of revelations, Sir Marcus Fox, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, reportedly told Mellor in a phone call that he was becoming an embarrassment to John Major. Mellor resigned on 24 September 1992, causing The Sun to jeer "From Toe Job to No Job" on its front page.

Mellor later suggested that he was hounded out of office, but tabloid editors quickly rejected this; indeed Bill Hagerty, editor of The People, said, "This is the first time in ages that David Mellor has done the decent thing".[4]

From what I remember it seems to sum events up pretty accurately. Being told to go after hanging on for months is hardly "resigning gracefully".

 

[joinerjohn]

Parliament has always been linked to scandals though. Profumo, Mellors, Major, Edwina Currie. Prescott.
Christ it's a wonder they have enough time to conduct parliamentary affairs properly, the amount of affairs going on. And they have the audacity to complain about the antics of England footballers.

 

[geraint]

Parliament has always been linked to scandals though. Profumo, Mellors, Major, Edwina Currie. Prescott.
Christ it's a wonder they have enough time to conduct parliamentary affairs properly, the amount of affairs going on. And they have the audacity to complain about the antics of England footballers.

edwina curry spoke the truth.. as we all know....

 

[geraint]

Have any of the unions come out and said who they are backing?

The unions have lost their power, they are ineffectual,

so does it matter?

not yet.. but hopefully they will..

 

[Lincsbodger]

Have any of the unions come out and said who they are backing?

The unions have lost their power, they are ineffectual,

so does it matter?

not yet.. but hopefully they will..

The unions havent lost there power in Labour, they own it. Watch the sparks at the autumn party conference when they try a military coup on the national executive committee.

 

[geraint]

bodge job.... get real...

 

[Lincsbodger]

bodge job.... get real...

Geraint

you really need to learn to google before you call someone a liar or dismiss there points

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260178/Unite-militants-BA-strike-plot-control-Labour.html