January 17, 2016
IT'S HARDLY SURPRISING...:
Tories undermining Labour funding with 'partisan' trade union bill (Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, 11 January 2016, The Guardian)
In one of the strongest attacks on a government by a retired senior civil servant, Bob Kerslake said the bill marked a "partisan and disproportionate" attempt to improve the position of the Conservatives at the expense of Labour.Lord Kerslake rounded on the government in a Guardian article on Monday as the House of Lords prepared to debate the bill designed to tighten the rules of trade union funding.A confidential Labour party document released to the Guardian revealed that the party faced an expected £6m drop in its annual income as a result of the changes to the political levy being introduced in the trade union bill, making it impossible for it to maintain its current structure, staffing or offices.
...that the Left is unwilling to submit its ideas to market forces.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 17, 2016 9:29 AM