Sensible Moderation Held to Ransom

In a modern democracy, there is very little point in appealing to people who don't matter. A political party for the whole country must of necessity stamp on the kind of people who need to be stamped on in order to benefit the whole country's owners. Hence Team Starmer has spent years transforming the Labour Party by purging it of ideology and commitments to the little people and replacing them with robust, pragmatic pledges to corporations, squillionaires, landlords and media barons. Unfortunately, at least one trade union appears unable to grasp the subtleties involved in being a party for working people, and is making threats to withdraw election funding if plans to improve workers' rights go the same way as the plans on nationalising public services, abandoning fossil fuel contracts, reforming social security, rationalising our relationship with the EU, taxing those who can afford it, and the famous Twenty-eight Billion. Union funds rightfully destined for Team Starmer's campaign to poach the right sort of voter from the Conservatives and Reform UK might then be used instead to subvert Labour's parliamentary expenses claimants, for all the world as if Labour were meant to be a party for those working people who have yet to attain management pay-grades. Fortunately, the funds in question amount to less than thirty million, and for that sort of small change Team Starmer can always go cap in hand to Supreme Leader Murdoch.