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Oh dear the sheer hypocrisy of Harman:

In a highly personal attack, Miss Harman said that the Conservative leader had been “spoiled” having “pots of money,” and accused him of being “arrogant”.

Despite being privately educated herself, and a niece by marriage of Lord Longford, the aristocratic social reformer, she added that while sitting beside Gordon Brown in the House of Commons she was often struck by Mr Cameron’s “sense of entitlement”.

At least they could get someone a little less upper class to do the attack, then you might think they were somewhere close to making a point.

General Election 2010: Harriet Harman says David Cameron is spoiled and arrogant – Telegraph.

Dodgy Geezer?

So now see how Labour get their money by Money-Laundering our money via Unite. Staggering and yet the BBC drones on about Ashcroft. The only people who care about Ashcroft, who donates less than 1% of Conservative money, is the BBC and Guardian readers, strange conincidence that.

The Telegraph has this.

The union behind the British Airways strike has received £18million from taxpayers under Labour,

Unite, and the two unions that formed it, received the public money under two little-known funds to improve management and training for its members.

It has been the biggest beneficiary of one of the schemes, the Union Modernisation Fund, and received a sixth of all the money given out under the Union Learning Fund.

Read more at the link below.

Union behind BA strike receives £18m from taxpayers in ‘money-laundering’ deal with Labour – Telegraph.

Do listen to this

“Imagine a Tory donor who’d bought a company, run its pension fund into the ground, bought the assets back for pennies in the pound, who became a privy counsellor even though he wasn’t qualified while personally funding the leader’s leadership bid – they (sic) would be a massive story and yet somehow the BBC runs day after day on Lord Ashcroft, who as far as I can see has done nothing wrong, and gives Labour an easy ride. It takes me back to the tales we had of the champagne bottles in 1997 and I’m afraid the BBC remains biased and fails to ask the proper questions of those who are currently in power.”

Source HERE (scroll in 12 mins)

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The Telegraph and indeed News of the World have articles on the extent of which Unite and Charlie Whelan are bankrolling the Labour Party. The Telegraph has this:

Unite is said to wield great influence over Gordon Brown and the Government’s policies in return for financial support and the votes of its two million members.

Ministers echoed the union’s opposition to Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury, but stayed silent over Unite’s threat to cause travel misery through a strike of British Airways cabin crew.

The union’s political director, Charlie Whelan, is acting as an official aide to Gordon Brown having previously worked as his special adviser, and is expected to be given a formal role in the forthcoming general election campaign.

Eric Pickles, the Conservative Party chairman, said:

“It’s quite clear that Charlie Whelan and his cronies are taking over the Labour party.

“Gordon Brown’s subservience to union barons and their militant tendencies means Labour are incapable of making the right decisions for the country.

“It’s disgraceful that Labour are quite happy to take £10 million from Unite, the union masterminding the BA strikes and ask no questions.”

Unite has given Labour £10.78m in cash donations and a further £287,023 in benefits such as the use of premises and printing since it was formed in 2007, through a merger of the Transport & General Workers Union and Amicus.

Electoral Commission records show that in the last three months of 2009 alone, Unite made donations worth almost £880,000 to Labour, including local constituencies in marginal seats as well as the national party.

According to the Telegraph Unite and Charlie Whelan are using American style election techniques to target voters they know may be Labour voters and firm them up by:

..registering with its website, www.unite4labour.org, union activists can gain access to the home and mobile telephone numbers of other members and are encouraged to call them up.

The website states: “Last week we launched the constituency phone bank which enables you to call Unite members in the marginal seats we are supporting. Now we are asking for your help to call our members in these seats every week in our ‘Talk Thursdays’.”

Mr Whelan wrote on the website: “I’d urge all Unite members to visit Unite4Labour, register for the member only section and talk to your colleagues about the threat to jobs, skills, schools, hospitals and local services that the Tory spending cuts will mean.”

So here we have one of Brown’s “Forces from Hell” using his position in a union to help his old Boss. Whelan is also accused by some in the Labour party of stitching up safe Labour seats fro some of his Labour cronies. The sheer hypocrisy of Labour is beyond a joke.

Britain’s biggest union ‘takes over’ Labour after £11m donations – Telegraph.

Harriet Harman

The obvious hypocrisy of Ms Harman is evident in this little story:

Harriet Harman is being investigated by police after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident in which she drove into a parked car while talking on her mobile phone.

Ms Harman, Labour’s deputy leader, is said to have stopped briefly after the crash, but witnesses say she drove off without leaving her insurance or registration details – an offence carrying a possible six-month jail term.

When a witness approached her car, the MP is said to have wound down her window and said simply: ‘I’m Harriet Harman – you know where you can get hold of me.’

According to police sources, Ms Harman is being investigated for driving without due care and attention, driving while illegally using a mobile phone and failing to stop after an accident, the most serious of the three offences.

Police sources told The Mail on Sunday she was due to be questioned early last week, but this was delayed because of the Labour conference.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: ‘We are in the process of taking statements from all the parties concerned. No injuries were reported and inquiries continue.’

‘I’m Harriet Harman – you know where you can get me…’ What Minister allegedly told witness after crashing into parked car | Mail Online.