So Labour’s getting more of its money from the unions and the unions are starting to ask for changes in policy. No, not surprising:
"They cannot carry on with this continual circus of reforms when all it
means is bringing the private sector in so they can make profits, while
trusts are plunged into deficit and our members are being made
redundant."
The important part there is "our members being made redundant". Unions, whatever the rhetoric, do not exist to benefit the general public, the country, the nation, whatever. They exist to benefit their members exclusively. As long as we remember that, we’ll be fine. They are as partisan as big business in asking for favours: however their demands and requests are wrapped up in the talk of the common good the aim is for their members to profit at the expense of everybody else.
So whenever we get asked, collectively, for some favour, whether it be to big business or via the imprecations of a union, we simply need to ask cui bono. As the answer will almost certainly be those making the proposal at our expense, the answer will similarly almost certainly be no.
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