| Topic: | Unite Union Pulling Labour's Strings? | |
| Posted by: | Sue Hammond | |
| Date/Time: | 19/04/25 14:37:00 |
| A quarter of Keir Starmer's ministers belong to the militant union behind the Birmingham bin strikes crisis, it can be revealed. Of the Labour Government's 108 ministers, 28 are card-carrying members of the hardline Unite union. They include Local Government Secretary Angela Rayner, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds. It means their membership fees are helping to fund the strike pay which Unite is doling out to refuse workers. Workers lose pay for every day they strike. But sources say Unite is handing striking workers as much as £100 for each day they keep the crippling six-week campaign going. Meanwhile, a Mail analysis reveals nearly a quarter of Labour's 403 MPs have pocketed cash from Unite barons. The 92 MPs have raked in a whopping £600,000 over the past year. Many of them relied on donations from the union's far-Left bosses to fight their campaigns in last year's general election. Critics last night said it proved the unions were Labour's 'paymasters' and explained why the Government has failed to get a grip of the crisis and step in to resolve it on behalf of Birmingham residents, who have endured weeks of misery. https://mol.im/a/14626631 |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| Unite Union Pulling Labour's Strings? | 19/04/25 14:37:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Unite Union Pulling Labour's Strings? | 19/04/25 15:45:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Unite Union Pulling Labour's Strings? | 19/04/25 16:51:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Unite Union Pulling Labour's Strings? | 19/04/25 16:16:00 | Andy Pike |
| Reply | 19/04/25 16:53:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Reply | 19/04/25 18:56:00 | Philippa Bond |
| Re: Unite Union Pulling Labour's Strings? | 19/04/25 19:13:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Oil barons Pulling Tories Strings? | 20/04/25 09:16:00 | Michael Brigo |
| Unions & Labour | 20/04/25 10:35:00 | Ed Robinson |
| Re:Re:Unite Union Pulling Labour's Strings? | 20/04/25 12:02:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 20/04/25 10:11:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Reply | 20/04/25 10:57:00 | Martine Guy |
| Re:Reply | 20/04/25 11:57:00 | Ed Robinson |
| Re:Reply | 20/04/25 12:05:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Reply | 20/04/25 12:32:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Reply | 20/04/25 18:49:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 20/04/25 19:16:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Re:Reply | 22/04/25 13:52:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 22/04/25 14:21:00 | Philippa Bond |
| Re:Reply | 22/04/25 13:44:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Reply | 24/04/25 09:44:00 | Philippa Bond |