Unions

This blog has previously moaned about the impropriety of the taxpayer being forced to make payments to the Unions which then make donations to the Labour party. I cannot see how anyone can think this is either moral or fair. Archbishop Cranmer has a very good blog on this today http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/ It is iniquitous but hardly surprising that the Labour government should have passed legislation to benefit the Unions out of taxpayers' money. Labour maintains it is the party of fairness and the hard working family but its hypocrisy on this issue is breathtaking. It is totally unfair on those of us who believe the Unions are dinosaurs who never had a constructive role and should be allowed to wither away to be forced through our taxes to support the Unions. What is almost as bad is that the Unions own the Labour party almost lock, stock and barrel. How can the Labour party promote any other policy than those supported by the Unions? The Unions represent a minority and a small minority at that and even in opposition it is simply not good enough to have a Labour party which can only propose Union approved policies. Better by far to have an independent opposition party and if that means the LibDems so be it.