On the day that super-union Unite moved a day closer to disrupting the travel plans of thousands of British Airways customers this coming weekend, it was timely of Conservative Chairman Eric Pickles and Shadow Schools Secretary Michael Gove to publish a document outlining just how dependent the Labour Party’s General Election campaign is on Britain’s biggest union.
The dossier sets out in detail the fact that, in the three years since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Unite has spent more than £11 million of its members’ money on buying influence within the Labour Party.
This extends from placing a key union operative inside 10 Downing Street, to taking effective control of many cash-strapped constituency Labour parties and installing Unite activists and officials as Parliamentary candidates.
At the head of Unite’s operations is its Political Director Charlie Whelan best known for being sacked as Gordon Brown’s poisonous spin doctor when the new Prime Minister was in the Treasury.
Whelan’s influence over the now Prime Minister is, once again, all-enveloping and certainly not in the best interests of this country.
Have a look at the document published earlier if you need any further convincing:
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