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Guido Fawkes` Blog is covering a money laundering operation story; the Government is apparently donating tax payer’s money through the DTI to the Unions to the tune of 10 million, for union modernisation?

This amount oddly, just about balances the funding the labour party receives from the unions at 11 million, thus saving union members a cool 10 million, which they would otherwise “supposedly” have to pay for the “modernisation” of their own unions.

I do not know what arguments have been forwarded by the DTI to back up its decision to spend our taxes on supporting unions, or what checks are being made by the government to ensure that the Unions are actually spending and extra £10 million on modernisation. It would be interesting to find out why the Labour Government should think that donating 10 million pounds to the unions would be a benefit to the countries taxpayers. The unions are after all nothing more than workers organisations, which of course have every right to support any political party they wish with the money donated their members. The taxpayer has no part to play in a private arrangement between the Union leaders and the Labour party, as one commenter on Guido Fawkes` Blog says:

The unions funding Labour is fine if that is what their members want. The taxpayers subsidising the unions is a new development started this year. The £10m bung “for modernisation” is equivalent to the support the unions give Labour. It’s a subsidy to the Labour party from the taxpayer with the money washed through the unions.

I can only agree with the sentiment, if this were happening in any other sphere of public life, I am quite sure as voters we would be demanding an explanation.

How the Labour Party Washes Money from the Taxpayer via the Unions

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