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Gap-year scheme is ‘first step towards conscription’
UNITE dramatically ramped up pressure on Labour yesterday with a call for an in-out vote on the EU following the 2015 election.
Delegates at the huge Labour funder’s Liverpool conference fiercely debated an executive position urging that British people be asked their view, becoming the first big Labour-affiliated union to do so.
The motion condemned the bloc for imposing “great suffering on the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere,” attacking labour rights and forcing through privatisation policies.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
