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Unions keep Labour afloat



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Published Date: 29 August 2008
LABOUR has become more dependent on trade unions to keep it afloat, as donations to the party fell by more than £1.1 million in the past year.
Figures yesterday showed the cash received by the party fell from above £5 million between April and June last year to £3.9 million in the same period this year. Union funding totalled £2.5 million.

The figures also show two of Labour's main funders, Lord Sainsbury and Sir Gulam Noon, have converted loans of £2 million and £250,000 respectively into donations to help ease the party's £17.8 million debt.







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  • Last Updated: 28 August 2008 9:21 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Labour Party
 
1

Jimmy Le Pie,

29/08/2008 00:28:38
More breaking 'news' from the Hootsmon

Bears defecate in the woods

Pope is religious

Comrade Broon is doomed
2

8/10 Cats,

29/08/2008 00:29:10
Excellent. I love when professional agitators get to set the agenda.

Labour for the UK, the SNP for Scotland. Two sets of professional agitator that don't agree. Scotland is going down the pan.
3

Senga Jean,

29/08/2008 00:50:41
~2 No it aint and you know it. Desperado?
4

Robbie 2,

NZ 29/08/2008 01:09:38
8/10 Cats
I have only recently notice your posts and so excuse me if you have already explained the following;
1 You are verdantly against Alex Salmond and the SNP - but what are you for?
2 Are you against countries (large or small) having sovereignty?
3 If you are for the Union - why do you believe (not counting warfare and conquest) what has been it’s benefits for Scotland over the last 300 years?
4 You said in a previous forum “ The SNP are running scared.” Do you really believe this?
5 If so what does it say for you political understanding of present day Britain?
6 If Alex Salmond is such a self-centred and ambitious politician why didn’t he join a party that would have made his rout to political success easier (he’d have been a big fish if he lied and toed the line in the Labour Party - might have become UK PM)?
7 Why are you against independence - remember as before, Schumacher in his famed book, ’Small Is Beautiful’ observes,
“…if we make a list of all the most prosperous countries in the world, we find most of them are very small [UN figures substantiates this] whereas a list of all the biggest countries in the world show most to be very poor indeed”.
5

8/10 Cats,

29/08/2008 01:19:53
Robbie, if I wanted to converse with irrelevant saddos like yourself I would wonder onto some kind of chat room.

What a tit you are sir.
6

donald anderson it's me,

weegieland 29/08/2008 03:04:03
So speaks the voice of Royal Labour reasoning.
7

donald anderson it's me,

weegieland 29/08/2008 03:04:30
I bet Cat buys the Hootsmon.
8

Pilrig.,

Livingston 29/08/2008 05:46:35
Should read - 8/10 pants.
9

SouthernSkye,

29/08/2008 07:36:35
NuLab is the most likely candidate for "oing down the pan". Their debts are still not being reduced and the entire national Executive are responsible for those debts. This all plays into the hands of the Unions who can start to pressure NL.
10

MacGillicuddy,

29/08/2008 07:48:19
#4 Robbie

8/10 cats is in permanent care and only ever gets his straightjacket taken off between the hours of midnight and 2 am. Somehow or other he gets access to a key board. Nobody here in Scotland takes him seriously, he is to be "humoured". He clearly is in no fit state of mind to know what he wants. In that regard he bears a striking similarity to AM2. Perhaps he is an alter ego?
11

MacGillicuddy,

29/08/2008 07:50:44
As the Liebour Party heads for permanent oblivion, the unions will be dragged with it unless they change their mindset.
12

Nikostratos,

29/08/2008 08:18:21
#11

You should change your moniker to 'Mr Oblivion'
13

MacGillicuddy,

29/08/2008 08:26:44
#12
I am sure the Liebour Party will have space for a few dinosaurs like you on its journey to oblivion.
14

Linda,

Edinburgh 29/08/2008 08:55:15
Headline should have been English donations keep Scottish Labour afloat. Of the £41,213 reported for Labour in Scotland (There is no Scottish Labour party) all of it, except for £1340 donation from Dundee Councillors to shore up Dundee East, was received from Unions or other organisations with English addresses.

Add to that the Newcastle Call Centre and Direct Mailing from Cramlington then "Scottish" Labour are the buggest subsidy junkies North of the Border.
15

brownlie,

29/08/2008 09:25:30
4 Robbie

Sensible posts are wasted on 8/10. He claims to be an Honours Graduate in Physics and Accountancy and you will note his answer to the relevant points you made is:

"What a tit you are, Sir".

If you are new to this site you may not be aware of contributions in the past by the now banned Paisley Pete/Ciderman/Dane Bramage along the exact same lines.
16

"Hoots" Fandango,

29/08/2008 10:40:14
"Unions keep Labour afloat"

They're a bunch of floaters.

17

"Hoots" Fandango,

29/08/2008 10:42:22
8/10 Cats

Peesh - pash - p¡sh.

18

Biggar Mac,

29/08/2008 10:57:33
Union membership is falling and more members are finding out how to opt out of paying for a party they don't support, but how many union members are still paying the political levy without realising it?

It is about time that Scottish union branches voted on paying the political levy to a party really fights for their interests. Thats not Nu Labour.
19

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 29/08/2008 13:53:45
The unions and the labour party had their uses during the early 1920s when people were routinely exposed to lethal hazards at work and were required to work unacceptably long hours for unacceptably low wages and had no job security.

They sorted that little mess out pretty well, however the strikes during the early 1970s stood as proof positive that they have no place in a modern world. The Tories very nearly put paid to them both completely in the 1980s/90s and it is a pity they didn't.

The unions have mostly now been tamed into representative bodies of negotiators, which is fair enough, however, the stupid labour party still survives with their rafts of daft, discriminatory, ill-thought-out, knee-jerk ideas, mitigated and covered up by lies and spin. It is high time they faded into oblivion.

20

FLUB,

a rocky outcrop in eastern central Scotland 29/08/2008 16:23:02
#2 Robbie2 in NZ. You take issue with 8/10 Cats, in which at your point 1 you state he is "verdantly" against Alex Salmond. A bit of a malapropism there; I don't know what term you're trying to use, but 'verdant' means 'green' No-one can be 'greenly' against someone or something - unless you think 8/10 is a Celtic supporter?

With regard to Union funding, there's a story in the Heralds whch refers to Labour having persuaded some of their creditors to write off millions of ££s worth of loans. How do the Unions explain this to their members?
21

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 29/08/2008 17:45:20
So - at the rate they're going it will take nearly 4 years just to pay off the debit without any current spending but since they'll be out on their ear in 2010 there' no chance of making much of an inroads into it. Cheerio and chin-chin.
22

McNasty,

Edinburgh 29/08/2008 20:04:26
8/10 Cats.

You would be a much happier beast if you were neutered.



23

Conan the Librarian™,

29/08/2008 20:08:59
20
FLUB
You can be verdantly against nuclear power.

Or indeed Rangers.

I vehemently agree about that.
24

JayDeeTee,

29/08/2008 21:09:57
Astonishes me that Union members are still donating to a party that has become soooo right wing. What a bunch of nobs.
25

radge dug,

Dùn Eideann 29/08/2008 21:24:51
#24 - agree. I remember Unison complaining in 97 about Edinburgh's Labour council 'slimming' by getting rid of workers. Yet they stil gave our money to them and urged us to vote for them. I didn't go back.

Labour are so right-wing they make the Tories seem reasonable on occasion. They're both sickening.
26

Col. Blimp­IV*,

29/08/2008 23:48:53
#20
FLUB



It seems that your declaration at #20 was a tad verdant.


Main Entry:
ver·dant Listen to the pronunciation of verdant
Pronunciation:
\'v?r-d?nt\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
modification of Middle French verdoyant, from present participle of verdoyer to be green, from Old French verdoier, from verd, vert green, from Latin viridis, from virere to be green
Date:
1581

1 a: green in tint or color b: green with growing plants [verdant fields]

2: unripe in experience or judgment : green 9a, b

27

bluehead,

edinburgh 09/09/2008 09:26:18
instead of keeping them afloat, they should give the labour goverment heavy diver's boots to wear,and make them take a long walk of a short pier,that should make them sink,and give us all peace.

 

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