LABOUR - HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER......

Labour leader, Ed Miliband, clearly
should have have used a longer spoon
when supping with the devil. He who
pays the piper invariably calls the tune.
Len McCluskey, General Secretary of
UNITE - which provides 80% of Labour
Party funding -  swung the power of his
union behind Miliband's bid to become
leader of Her Majesty's Loyal
Opposition and now it's payback time.

MccCuskey, the £125,000 a-year,
former docker and left-wing throw-back
from the 1970s, is in the process of 
taking over the Labour Party,
allegedly through electoral fraud and
corruption.

News of Unite's growing infiltration
emerged this week in Falkirk, where it  
is claimed that the the union is
attempting to rig the contest to select
the party's candidate for the
forthcoming by-election. Members
of Unite are being signed up to
Labour, some without their
knowledge, in order to manipulate
the result, in favour of the union
candidate.   

The police have been called in to
investigate suspected wrongdoing
and there are reports of malpractice
in some forty-six other constituencies,
where McCluskey's malign influence
is being felt. He has  countered
allegations that Labour membership
details have been passed to Unite
illegally, in breach of the Data
Protection Act, by accusing Labour
headquarters of a smear campaign.

This is the most serious threat to Ed
Miliband since becoming leader of his
party three years ago. It leaves him
impotent to challenge Unite - Labour's 
main means of financial support - in its
intention to take the party to the
extreme Left, rendering it unelectable.
Setting aside these travails, this may
already be the case. In terms of weak 
leadership, Ed Miliband is not
dissimilar to Michael Foot, the
1980s' Labour Leader.

Taunted by David Cameron for being
in the pocket of the unions, he will find 
difficulty in his ongoing battle with
Mccluskey in being seen as capable of
running his party, let alone the country.          

Apart from calling in the police,
Ed Miliband's only response so far has
been to accept the resignation of
Shadow cabinet member, Tom Watson.
He was Labour's 2015 election supremo
and is a former flatmate of Len
Mccluski. 

Unite's preferred Falkirk candidate,
Karie Murphy, latterly Tom Watson's
office manager, and the constituency
party chairman have both been
suspended.