Posted: Apr 15, 2012 1:47 pm
Who exactly are these people voluntarily joining organisations that are explicitly affiliated with the labour party, yet dismayed to find that this means they are supporting the labour party by proxy?
Who would join a union in order to safeguard their own working conditions (as to workplace rights, pay, safety etc), but then demand an element of their fees funds a party that will undermine them at every opportunity, instead of the party that their chosen union has always been expressly affiliated with - and why isn't the market providing new 'tory unions' for those precious little individuals?
Or if the parties not in receipt of union funding think it so democratically necessary to reduce a source of funding for the party that is, why don't they compete for that money by not having quite so many policies that make them widely reviled by the general population? Perhaps they just believe that a voluntary £3 donation from a working person is by definition 'filthy, corrupting money' in a way that a large windfall from a bank or fugitive criminal, or charging a £250k levy for access to the party leadership is not.
Who would join a union in order to safeguard their own working conditions (as to workplace rights, pay, safety etc), but then demand an element of their fees funds a party that will undermine them at every opportunity, instead of the party that their chosen union has always been expressly affiliated with - and why isn't the market providing new 'tory unions' for those precious little individuals?
Or if the parties not in receipt of union funding think it so democratically necessary to reduce a source of funding for the party that is, why don't they compete for that money by not having quite so many policies that make them widely reviled by the general population? Perhaps they just believe that a voluntary £3 donation from a working person is by definition 'filthy, corrupting money' in a way that a large windfall from a bank or fugitive criminal, or charging a £250k levy for access to the party leadership is not.