![Unite: the gift that keeps on taking]()
by nabidana | Mar 17, 2010 | politics, unions
Unite, the UK’s largest trade union, is the key funder of the Labour Party, providing some £11m to the party since 2007. Since the Union Modernisation fund was established in 2006, the Union has received £4.4m from the government, which is of course a Labour...
by nabidana | Mar 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Gordon Brown says the British Airways strike being proposed by Unite is coming ‘at the wrong time’. Wrong time how, exactly? Wrong for all the Easter holidaymakers desperate to briefly escape the UK for a week, or wrong for all those people who are now...
by nabidana | Feb 22, 2010 | politics, Uncategorized
First, a confession. It seems I am in some circumstances a bully. Unfortunately, in order to explore the phenomenon, I shall have to resort to the language of the military. Analogies will be stretched, nokias will be hurled, and it may help you if you imagine me...
![Friends don’t let friends vote Labour]()
by nabidana | Feb 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
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by nabidana | Feb 20, 2010 | politics
Tim Montgomerie over at ConservativeHome appears to have been the first to note that, instead of a funfair, five more years of Labour may be a fête worse than death. Ho ho ho etc. But as I covered last night, it was Iain Lindley, Conservative PPC for Worsley South...
