Thank goodness I'm not a member of UNITE....

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6. So you are supporting McCluskey's actions then.

Just to sum up, Chukka Ummuna doesn't actually want to expel everyone who's joined Labour since 2015, and these people are trying to listen to disgruntled folk from all sides in a bid to keep their jobs, which is why so many of them obeyed the Labour whip and (wrongly in my view) backed Corbyn in parliament and voted for Britain to leave the EU this week.

The issue here is that as a trade union, UNITE is meant to represent working people, both in politics and more importantly, to represent workers in the workplace. If the leadership of the trade union are more interested in playing internal Labour party power games then in doing the job that union members pay their subscription fees for then that is a very poor advertisement for joining a trade union.

If I were to join a trade union, I would want that union to be banging on the door of just about every politician they can find in order to persuade them of the value of improved pay and conditions for workers. Not just 40 or so "ideologically pure" Labour MP's.