Saying Nothing At All
At a time when every penny counts - including every penny spent by the trade unions - no one has had much to say about the £500,000 'golden goodbye' paid to the former Unite boss - Derek Simpson.
Not the Labour party - which receives millions of pounds in financial support from Unite - money that belongs to ordianry union members of course.
Not Jack Dromey - the new Labour MP for Birmingham, Erdington - who was the former deputy general secretary of Unite before heading off to a new career in the House of Commons.
Now the deafening silence from the Labour benches is a complete disgrace - but it would put Labour in the difficult position of standing up for ordinary union members - and criticising the party's largest financial donor.
See previous post date 21 July 2011 - 'Weasel Words'.
So what has happened to all the inspiring Labour slogans of years gone by - Say what we mean, and mean what we say' - for example?
Seems like the Labour approach these days - in the words of Ronan Keating - is to 'say nothing at all.'
Not the Labour party - which receives millions of pounds in financial support from Unite - money that belongs to ordianry union members of course.
Not Jack Dromey - the new Labour MP for Birmingham, Erdington - who was the former deputy general secretary of Unite before heading off to a new career in the House of Commons.
Now the deafening silence from the Labour benches is a complete disgrace - but it would put Labour in the difficult position of standing up for ordinary union members - and criticising the party's largest financial donor.
See previous post date 21 July 2011 - 'Weasel Words'.
So what has happened to all the inspiring Labour slogans of years gone by - Say what we mean, and mean what we say' - for example?
Seems like the Labour approach these days - in the words of Ronan Keating - is to 'say nothing at all.'
