If I had my way I’d rid this country of these unions and start quality protection organisations for workers.

Of course they’re all jobs for the boys and labour isn’t complaining when they’re filling their coffers to that extent.

What seems to have happened though, is that the union modernisation fund has been continued well beyond any ‘transitory’ period. It’s sole purpose is to allow the trade unions to use this money to fund the Labour party by converting a percentage of each grant award into a political donation. (I also haven’t seen any starving union bosses recently, strange they are in their ruddy faced rotundness!)

This corruption must be highlighted in the run up to the election. To add to this there must be union legislation in the manefesto to create an opt in, rather than opt out, to the political levy, which must be entirely confidential to each member and not available as information to the local shop steward. This would stop the implied threat that the politicised shop stewards use against those not wishing to pay the Labour party, the threat of ‘Jankers’ or ostracisation.

Time to force political parties into a ‘one member one vote’ straightjacket as a condition of standing in UK elections maybe? That might give the union members a more powerful voice and reduce the power of the union barons over their members.