Obvious orchestration II...

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Mark Wallace (he of the now neglected, sadly, CrashBangWallace) has an interesting article over at ConHome about Labour candidates and Unite. He quotes Tim Shipman of the Daily Mail who revealed, "Unite candidates or officials have the top spot in every region in Labour's MEP lists apart from East Midlands, where they are 2nd"; now this is hardly ground shaking news and I think anyone even remotely interested knew but it does belie the Labour party scrambling defence of the scandal that was Falkirkgate (their broadcasting arm was very keen to bat it away as a one-off then say it was nothing anyway), surprise!...NOT. Unite admit it but as Michael Savage and Francis Elliott in The Times write (££) "In a development that prompted fresh claims that the union has too much power over the party, it was disclosed that Unite had all but guaranteed that more of its candidates would be handed £83,000-a-year jobs in Strasbourg."

Obvious orchestration II...

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Mark Wallace (he of the now neglected, sadly, CrashBangWallace) has an interesting article over at ConHome about Labour candidates and Unite. He quotes Tim Shipman of the Daily Mail who revealed, "Unite candidates or officials have the top spot in every region in Labour's MEP lists apart from East Midlands, where they are 2nd"; now this is hardly ground shaking news and I think anyone even remotely interested knew but it does belie the Labour party scrambling defence of the scandal that was Falkirkgate (their broadcasting arm was very keen to bat it away as a one-off then say it was nothing anyway), surprise!...NOT. Unite admit it but as Michael Savage and Francis Elliott in The Times write (££) "In a development that prompted fresh claims that the union has too much power over the party, it was disclosed that Unite had all but guaranteed that more of its candidates would be handed £83,000-a-year jobs in Strasbourg."

Obvious obscurantism IV...

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Am I the first with this obvious headline? "Unite Ed we stand; Unite Ed we fall."



I somehow get the feeling that had this been Lord Ashcroft being accused of hijacking the Conservative Party election process to select a candidate/s the BBC may have had just a little more than just THIS single report, the headline and preamble of which completely disguise the real story ("Tom Watson quits as Labour election campaign chief"). The real story of course is union influence and control over Labour: the party gets about 8 million quid a year from unions, nearly half of which comes from Unite making it responsible for more than 40% of Labour's entire haul from donations. As David Vance says here, quoting Kipling, "the truthful well-weighed answer that tells the blacker lie"; thinking about it, that could be the BBC's motto sweeping some things under the carpet and whisking up a storm when it suits the agenda.

Obvious obscurantism IV...

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Am I the first with this obvious headline? "Unite Ed we stand; Unite Ed we fall."

I somehow get the feeling that had this been Lord Ashcroft being accused of hijacking the Conservative Party election process to select a candidate/s the BBC may have had just a little more than just THIS single report, the headline and preamble of which completely disguise the real story ("Tom Watson quits as Labour election campaign chief"). The real story of course is union influence and control over Labour: the party gets about 8 million quid a year from unions, nearly half of which comes from Unite making it responsible for more than 40% of Labour's entire haul from donations. As David Vance says here, quoting Kipling, "the truthful well-weighed answer that tells the blacker lie"; thinking about it, that could be the BBC's motto sweeping some things under the carpet and whisking up a storm when it suits the agenda.

Obvious opposition...

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"Only now, long after the election, do we begin to realise how clever Gordon Brown really was. After the crash, in his last two years in office, he started preparing for a new kind of Opposition. Labour might be turfed out of government, but it could carry on the fight through charities, quangos and think tanks. At one stage, Brown had a team in Downing Street devoted to appointments in public bodies, carefully building what would become a kind of government-in-exile." [Link]



Erm... "only now" Fraser? I've been screaming this - along with other 'right wing loonies' - for years (because it began long before Brown, it went hand in hand with the Blairite "reforms" of the Civil Service: something Norman mentions, along with -off topic- a perfect description of what has happened to the BBC). Please read the whole of Fraser's article though, it will explain a lot if you hadn't already twigged.

Obvious opposition...

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"Only now, long after the election, do we begin to realise how clever Gordon Brown really was. After the crash, in his last two years in office, he started preparing for a new kind of Opposition. Labour might be turfed out of government, but it could carry on the fight through charities, quangos and think tanks. At one stage, Brown had a team in Downing Street devoted to appointments in public bodies, carefully building what would become a kind of government-in-exile." [Link]

Erm... "only now" Fraser? I've been screaming this - along with other 'right wing loonies' - for years (because it began long before Brown, it went hand in hand with the Blairite "reforms" of the Civil Service: something Norman mentions, along with -off topic- a perfect description of what has happened to the BBC). Please read the whole of Fraser's article though, it will explain a lot if you hadn't already twigged.

Out outers...

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Nuts didn't wait long, nor the rest. I think all that is needed is full and fair disclosure of all pay and expenses/pay benefits/bonuses etc, why there need to be cuts/freeze/pension adjustments etc and who it actually effects and by how much and suddenly they will lose any non-aligned support, just as with the housing benefit there were cries of 'thousands of families will be turfed onto the streets' was turned into cries of "how much?!!" as soon as hoi polloi got to know the facts suddenly all the union and Labour rhetoric and spin falls flat on its face. P.S. and many of them are indeed true small-minded cunts. "It shows an ugly side to the hard left who cannot move on from their utter defeat at the hands of this remarkable, but now frail, lady."

Out outers...

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Nuts didn't wait long, nor the rest. I think all that is needed is full and fair disclosure of all pay and expenses/pay benefits/bonuses etc, why there need to be cuts/freeze/pension adjustments etc and who it actually effects and by how much and suddenly they will lose any non-aligned support, just as with the housing benefit there were cries of 'thousands of families will be turfed onto the streets' was turned into cries of "how much?!!" as soon as hoi polloi got to know the facts suddenly all the union and Labour rhetoric and spin falls flat on its face. P.S. and many of them are indeed true small-minded cunts. "It shows an ugly side to the hard left who cannot move on from their utter defeat at the hands of this remarkable, but now frail, lady."

Olympian oaf...

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Bad language warning. If ever proof were needed that Mark Serwotka, general secretary of Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is not only a cunt but also a complete dumb-arse fuckwit surely this is it: "I think the government is whipping up hysteria about the Olympics, there'll be no disruption to the Olympics, this is a 24-hour strike before the Olympics actually takes place"...worth noting only 11% (57% of 20% turnout) of all members voted for strike action. The bus drivers were going to go on strike, some train drivers ARE going to strike and now this. 

Olympian oaf...

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Bad language warning. If ever proof were needed that Mark Serwotka, general secretary of Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is not only a cunt but also a complete dumb-arse fuckwit surely this is it: "I think the government is whipping up hysteria about the Olympics, there'll be no disruption to the Olympics, this is a 24-hour strike before the Olympics actually takes place"...worth noting only 11% (57% of 20% turnout) of all members voted for strike action. The bus drivers were going to go on strike, some train drivers ARE going to strike and now this. 

Orchestral overtures...

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Orchestral manoeuvres in the park; could this work in local government? Harry Phibbs reflects** on the words of Derek Myers, chairman of SOLACE (the trade union for Council Chief Execs) who in turn was commenting on how councils could learn from the example of orchestras where 'all the players are self-employed and see themselves as part of a company';

"...This sense of community promotes high standards. Peer pressure seems to encourage the relatively indolent, and identifies those who need to be eased out. Promotion owes nothing to length of service and everything to talent."

Efforts toward employee engagement are nothing new but the public sector is a different animal; obviously in an orchestra it is far easier to notice when someone isn't quite right; in truth I find it difficult to imagine many council employees really 'encouraging' their no so keen colleagues; I personally think we are 'too far down the road' to enable the success of such moves.



** Harry also reflects on the hypocrisy of the BBC and the Left re tax avoidance.

Orchestral overtures...

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Orchestral manoeuvres in the park; could this work in local government? Harry Phibbs reflects** on the words of Derek Myers, chairman of SOLACE (the trade union for Council Chief Execs) who in turn was commenting on how councils could learn from the example of orchestras where 'all the players are self-employed and see themselves as part of a company';

"...This sense of community promotes high standards. Peer pressure seems to encourage the relatively indolent, and identifies those who need to be eased out. Promotion owes nothing to length of service and everything to talent."

Efforts toward employee engagement are nothing new but the public sector is a different animal; obviously in an orchestra it is far easier to notice when someone isn't quite right; in truth I find it difficult to imagine many council employees really 'encouraging' their no so keen colleagues; I personally think we are 'too far down the road' to enable the success of such moves.

** Harry also reflects on the hypocrisy of the BBC and the Left re tax avoidance.

'Out' opportunity over Olympics...

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Any ground gained by Ed Miliband recently (some say he has managed to land a punch or two) has - or will be - completely forgotten if he doesn't try to put a stop to, or speak out against, his biggest donor making a massive, MASSIVE mistake: Len McCluskey, the leader of the Unite union (Labour and Miliband's top financier) has said in an interview with the Guardian that "If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that's exactly one that we should be looking at"; what this brain-dead fuck-wit dinosaur means is that to fight the "cuts" (minor scrapings) and the "so deep and ideological" (they are neither) 'attacks on public sector workers'  "employees should consider using strike action to disrupt the Olympics...". If there were a competition for Prize Cunt then Len would surely make the final.

'Out' opportunity over Olympics...

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Any ground gained by Ed Miliband recently (some say he has managed to land a punch or two) has - or will be - completely forgotten if he doesn't try to put a stop to, or speak out against, his biggest donor making a massive, MASSIVE mistake: Len McCluskey, the leader of the Unite union (Labour and Miliband's top financier) has said in an interview with the Guardian that "If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that's exactly one that we should be looking at"; what this brain-dead fuck-wit dinosaur means is that to fight the "cuts" (minor scrapings) and the "so deep and ideological" (they are neither) 'attacks on public sector workers'  "employees should consider using strike action to disrupt the Olympics...". If there were a competition for Prize Cunt then Len would surely make the final.