Guardian Australia
Sources predict ‘toe-curling’ revelations as more than 1,000 pages of documents relating to his appointment as US ambassador to be published Mandelson files show no mitigation of security concerns The Times has published polling today from JL Partners saying that trade union members are as likely to support Reform UK as Labour. Around 1,000 trade union members were polled, and Reform UK and Labour both attracted 28% support. In 2024 Labour was on 24% with union members. Labour is no longer the party of the patriotic working class. That mantle now belongs to Reform. Labour has abandoned the working class, and the working class have abandoned Labour. Being prepared to cut the winter fuel allowance, slash benefits for the disabled and aid and abet a jobless transition for oil and gas workers at the same time workers and their families are struggling with a baked-in cost of living crisis is not the change people voted for. Reform are no friends of workers. They want to cancel hugely important union rights and are targeting the pensions of the low paid. But Labour has to show working-class people it can be on their side — as it did with last week’s essential help for our ceramics industry. Continue reading...
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