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."
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