Beware of Tory con tricks
Thursday 18 March 2010
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EmailThe scare stories being run by the right-wing media and the ranks of new Labour's Blairites on what they see as the "dangers" of the trade union movement's campaign to promote its own parliamentary candidates, especially from within its own ranks, in the forthcoming general election surely gives their game away.
The unions' determination to see the return of more of their members to the House of Commons means the chance of better representation of a cross-section of the British and Northern Irish population, bringing the opinions and experiences of all to bear on the debates on the way society is shaped. This is being portrayed as a manipulation of power by trade union leaders.
Working people don't need manipulation in order to show their worth and abilities, all they need are the opportunities - and their presence among the self-seeking career politicians who have brought our legislature into disrepute is for the common good.
New Labourites won't see that as they make their last stand, fearing a return to the party roots.
David Cameron and the Tories' take on this shows their true colours. They look down on working people and fear their organisations.
Recent events betray the contempt that Tories have for working people, seeing them as the tools of union dictatorships with no mind of their own, nor the ability to take a leading role in the governance of our nations.
This the Tories see as their right - the right of those educated in public schools - to rule over us.
Roy Jones Colwyn Bay
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