Rank Hypocrisy
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, has defended the decision to ban McDonalds from having a stand at the party's annual conference in September 2016, on the grounds that the company uses zero hours contracts and doesn't recognise trade unions.
"We have a responsibility to take seriously the rights of workers to be represented. It's important that companies don't reject recognition."
Now this is childish nonsense if you ask me, especially when you think about the long list of Labour-run councils who have trampled all over the rights of low paid women workers when it comes to equal pay.
Yet instead of being banned from things like the party conference many of these leading figures will be attending Labour events as delegates and warmly welcomed by the party leadership, which is as ridiculous as it sounds.
Margaret (now Baroness) Prosser, is the former deputy general secretary of the TGWU union and was the Labour party's treasurer from 1996 until 2001. Appearing on the BBC's Daily Politics the other day, she said:
"Clearly if you’ve got a principled position then the money has to come second, but what is the principled position against McDonald’s? I don’t get it.”
I have to say I don't get it either, but it tells you a lot about Team Corbyn's juvenile political priorities.
