Unite backs Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader

[Buckaroo]

people like ricky Tomlinson deserved to be locked up

 

[chilango]

Tell you what gareth taylor take a stroll down the road into Holywell. I know there's no buses this time of night, but it's only a few miles you'll be there in about 40 minutes max. Have a look around. Tell me how much of what you see is down to "the Unions". Then tomorrow morning when the buses are back on take a trip to Point of Ayr, to Shotton, he'll even to the Wrecsam coalfields if you like and see what the Unions did. Go on. Then come back here and talk about being anti Union.

 

[Libertad]

Tell you what gareth taylor take a stroll down the road into Holywell. I know there's no buses this time of night, but it's only a few miles you'll be there in about 40 minutes max. Have a look around. Tell me how much of what you see is down to "the Unions". Then tomorrow morning when the buses are back on take a trip to Point of Ayr, to Shotton, he'll even to the Wrecsam coalfields if you like and see what the Unions did. Go on. Then come back here and talk about being anti Union.

My grandad was a brickie at Shotton Steel Works.
Deeside's a very sad place to walk around these days. (((Connah's Quay)))

 

[nino_savatte]

unions have killed parts of uk building industry

People have been killed because the UK building industry likes to cut corners. Get it right.

 

[treelover]

Tell you what gareth taylor take a stroll down the road into Holywell. I know there's no buses this time of night, but it's only a few miles you'll be there in about 40 minutes max. Have a look around. Tell me how much of what you see is down to "the Unions". Then tomorrow morning when the buses are back on take a trip to Point of Ayr, to Shotton, he'll even to the Wrecsam coalfields if you like and see what the Unions did. Go on. Then come back here and talk about being anti Union.

I remember having a fund raising party at my house during the Miners Strike to raise money for the Point Of Ayr families, now all gone

 

[DotCommunist]

people like ricky Tomlinson deserved to be locked up

again? how many times must he pay for his crimes?

 

[free spirit]

unions have killed parts of uk building industry

by unions did you mean free market government policies that pointlessly prevent investment in council house building, infrastructure etc unless it's a big prestige project in London?

 

[DotCommunist]

gareth taylor I hope you understand that collectively organising in a union has no real left/right bias. Thats right, even tories join unions. Its wider self interest at the end of the day.

 

[Libertad]

gareth taylor I hope you understand that collectively organising in a union has no real left/right bias. Thats right, even tories join unions. Its wider self interest at the end of the day.

He wont understand that, you give him too much credit.

 

[gareth taylor]

again? how many times must he pay for his crimes?

every who comes out of jail is innocent then,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[two sheds]

You really do have problems stringing a sentence together, don't you.

 

[Pickman's model]

You really do have problems stringing a sentence together, don't you.

not to mention a thought.

 

[two sheds]

not to mention a thought.

Yes I was idly speculating as I was writing it .... 'thought, sentence, thought, sentence ...'

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes I was idly speculating as I was writing it .... 'thought, sentence, thought, sentence ...'

long sentence was what struck me, in connection with the wittering about prisons.

 

[A380]

Have we had this yet?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...-leadership-race_n_8003646.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

unions have killed parts of uk building industry

Lol hopefully they will kill your mum

 

[gareth taylor]

Lol hopefully they will kill your mum

you are sick mods want that comment taken off now !!!!!!

 

[Shirl]

people like ricky Tomlinson deserved to be locked up

Oh come on, Brooky wasn't that bad.

 

[bi0boy]

 

[J Ed]

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It wasn't a 'free vote', he was sent as a representative of Unite. He is either being mendacious or does not understand the process or a bit of both.

 

[bi0boy]

It wasn't a 'free vote', he was sent as a representative of Unite. He is either being mendacious or does not understand the process or a bit of both.

I thought he was a Young Labour rep not a Union one.

 

[J Ed]

I thought he was a Young Labour rep not a Union one.

Yes, the tweet certainly does create that wrong impression.

 

[bi0boy]

Well if Zac can in practice choose to vote for whoever, but is mandated to vote a particular way which is enforced like this then the process if flawed.

 

[J Ed]

Well if Zac can in practice choose to vote for whoever, but is mandated to vote a particular way which is enforced like this then the process if flawed.

Perhaps it is, but perhaps he should voice that concern or not participate in the process rather than insinuating that he is being forced to vote one way or another by the eeeevil unions

 

[bi0boy]

Perhaps it is, but perhaps he should voice that concern or not participate in the process rather than insinuating that he is being forced to vote one way or another by the eeeevil unions

Surely he was being forced to vote one way or another

 

[brogdale]

Surely he was being forced to vote one way or another

Goes with the territory, if you seek the role of a delegate.

 

[redsquirrel]

Surely he was being forced to vote one way or another

He's not being forced to do anything, he's a delegate and there to carry out the instructions of his branch (or whichever body instructed him). If he didn't feel he could vote the way they decided he shouldn't have taken the role.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Surely he was being forced to vote one way or another

When I was a CPSA delegate we would have a branch meeting at which all branch members could vote to instruct their delegates which way to vote on the motions published ahead of conference; my instructions often went against my personal preferences on matters such as Labour Party affiliation and withdrawal of troops from the six counties. They weren't my votes; they were the branch's votes. So if Zac was casting a vote as a Unite delegate - a vote on which the branch had taken a decision - then I don't see what the problem is asking for him to provide evidence that he has acted in accordance with the branch's wishes...it is what he's there to do.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice