Monty Python

After months of being used as everyone's favourite punchbag, the Lib Dem leader - Nick Clegg - is finding his voice again and has waded into the Falkirk vote-rigging row with the following attack on the Labour Party.  

“It’s like some sort of Monty Python parody of the Soviet Union. The whole thing is so mysterious, that the Labour Party is run like this.

“The Labour Party leadership appear to be puppets on a string run by these trade union bosses.

“How the trade union bosses then get elected, how they raise money, how they disburse money, is a complete and utter mystery to me.

“Something seriously dodgy clearly happened in Falkirk. It really is time the Labour Party leadership come clean with people about what happened so people know – given that this is a party that wants to run the country from May 2015 onwards – what kind of party it is.”

Now, 'I agree with Nick', as Gordon Brown and David Cameron were both fond of saying during the 'party leader' debates in the run up to the last general election - the whole Falkirk/Grangemouth business really is like something out of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

And the whole problem stems from the practice of allowing people inside the Labour Party (i.e. the trade unions) to pretend that they are able to speak on party political issues on behalf of their members - when all the evidence contradicts such a claim.

The solution is simple - One Member One Vote - One Member One Voice.

Politics would be better and cleaner - if Britain's union bosses owned up to the reality that their members hold a wide range of political views which they are quite capable of expressing for themselves - without the need for any help from the likes of Len McCluskey.