Representative Unions (28/4/15)

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Ed Miliband needs help from Len McCluskey like he needs an extra hold in his head at the moment, but the Unite leader's intervention will only fuel fears south of the border that Labour might gain power by the 'back door'.

Because while it's one thing to form an alliance with other democratically elected MPs, it's quite another to be seen dancing to the tune of an unelected trade union boss who helped Ed Miliband become Labour leader in the first place.

Even more so when you consider this 50-50 baloney that Len McCluskey is banging on about with his officials telling the The Times that:

"Unite sources said that it reflected the union’s membership in Scotland, where support is divided 50-50 between Labour and the SNP"

Now this is nonsense, of course, since trade union members vote the same way as the rest of the population and according to the latest opinion poll only 22% of Scots now support Labour - a trend which has been very clear for some time.

So the majority of Unite members support the SNP and other parties, in just the same away as in other trade unions, and the challenge facing Len McCluskey is to make his own union properly representative instead of promoting a tribal, pro-Labour agenda.

Which means not just talking about policies and politics in a general sense, but in actively recruiting an promoting talented people from an SNP and other non-Labour backgrounds to senior positions within Unite.   

Whereas at the moment Unite operates as a dreary, Labour-only closed shop.

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