British trade union attack on Blairism

This is a video from Britain about David Miliband and his broken promise about a referendum on the proposed European Union treaty.

From British weekly The Observer:

Vicious union attack deepens Labour rift

* Toby Helm, Whitehall editor

* Sunday September 7 2008

Labour‘s civil war reaches new heights today as the leader of Britain’s biggest union launches a venomous personal attack on Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

In an outspoken interview with The Observer on the eve of the Trades Union Congress, Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite, the union with the biggest group of Labour MPs at Westminster, accused Miliband, in a stream of swearwords, of being ‘smug’ and ‘arrogant’.

In terms that caused fury on the right of the party, he also said Miliband would take the country back to the ‘failings of Blairism‘ and could be a worse choice as Prime Minister than the Tory leader David Cameron. ‘We might as well elect Cameron. We might be better off with Cameron,’ he said.

‘Why should we elect a young fresh face when we have already got one in Cameron with policies that are not dissimilar?’

Simpson’s officials, who sat in on the interview, immediately ordered that swearwords used to describe Miliband be taken ‘off the record’. However, they confirmed that the robust anti-Miliband assault had been deliberate and should stand.

See also here. And here. And here. And here.

Miliband satire: here.

RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress: here.