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EU spending on Trade Unions

I have been wracking my brain wondering why some of the trade unions are supporting the EU and the Remain vote in recent years.It's certainly causing conflict between the workers and the Trade Unions.Really strange as even Jeremy Corbyn has said on the record many times that freedom of movement supresses working class wages, and you would have thought the trade unions would naturally be against the lower wages.Low and behold some financial figures were released recently showing where some of the EU money goes as below:From Claire Fox's twitter page.WWF (€45,762,505)OECD (€30,523,562)RSPB (€19,630,265)LSE (€18,333,273)Friends of the Earth (€17,112,870)PwC (€16,304,778) Institute for Fiscal Studies (€7,400,974)CBI (€1,350,737)NUS (€767,196)TUC (€763,473)Standard & Poor's (€745,189)GMB (€372,945)UNITE the union (€283,788)Unison (€188,893)International Monetary Fund (€168,138)NFU (€133,842)Communication Workers Union (€25,097)Total (€159,878,761)Whilst some of the above are good causes, I'm absolutely furious that they fund our biggest trade unions in this country, and in return they get the union vote.#draintheswamp

Paul Game ● 2676d13 Comments

Compared to how much WWF (€45,762,505) OECD (€30,523,562)RSPB (€19,630,265) Friends of the Earth (€17,112,870) get, the total for  our unions is peanuts!And if  trade unions support Remain it's because they know that Brexit is bad  news for their members.#Endoftermreport - Paul is a diligent student but needs to do better

Lucille Grant ● 2676d

@Lucille Does that still mean I get to be Teacher's Pet? 🤣😂

Paul Game ● 2676d

That would be telling!

Lucille Grant ● 2676d

Diligence. Remember little Jimmy's school reports?  "Trying, still trying, still very trying."

Alexander MacLeod ● 2676d

LOL

Lucille Grant ● 2676d

Lol thankyou Alexander🤣

Paul Game ● 2676d

"Diligence. Remember little Jimmy's school reports?  "Trying, still trying, still very trying.""Blimey, where was that from? "Dan Leno's music hall reciter and vade-mecum", 1897?Good though.

David Ainsworth ● 2676d

Charities, researchers, businesses, and therefore I assume trade unions, can apply for all sorts of EU funding.  That funding, and everything else the EU does, costs us only 0.7% of our taxes, as well as giving us protection of our rights as women/men, mothers/fathers, workers, consumers and citizens.  There was indeed a concern, not only in the UK, that freedom of movement was suppressing wages in some areas, so the EU legislated to stop that happening.  Of course, the value of the pound has plummeted so much since the Brexit vote that EU27 workers aren’t coming here as much as they were, so now we have produce rotting in the fields.  Hey ho.  I wonder which workers are in conflict with their trade unions.  Probably not the ~250k people who have already lost their job as a result of Brexit (which doesn’t include jobs that are not being created as a result of companies locating or expanding elsewhere in the EU and not in the UK).  Trade unions have their members best interests at heart in wanting to Remain.Finally, Claire Fox is a hypocrite.  Currently a Brexit MEP in the European Parliament, she is also an Irish citizen, so could choose to be completely unaffected by Brexit if she so wished.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-public-spending-was-calculated-in-your-tax-summary/how-public-spending-was-calculated-in-your-tax-summary (section 3)https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44293265https://smallbusinessprices.co.uk/brexit-index/

Clare Noeken ● 2676d

Clare Why did you have to go and spoil the good vibe on the forum lol😂

Paul Game ● 2676d

A few facts don't spoil the good vibe.

Lucille Grant ● 2676d

Lucille, that's the icing on the cake. You have properly spoilt the vibe! Normal service resumed :-) For those that didn't like the Panorama hit job on the Labour party, a reliable source I follow on Twitter is saying that some ex BBC journalists maybe coming together and speaking out soon about Panorama and John Sweeney regarding the way they sometimes unethically go about getting their stories. Some of their practices are quite underhand apparently so watch this space.

Paul Game ● 2676d

Paul, you've now ruined the vibe on the thread. Panorama 'hit job' indeed. You've joined the dark (Labour) side.BTW who is  the 'reliable' twitter source? I thought you felt that most MSM inc the BBC was underhand anyway?

Lucille Grant ● 2676d

@Lucille...Patience my dear!The ex BBC journo has said there has been a lot of #fakenews and misrepresentation attached to the Panorama programmes for many years. I've seen some secret undercover footage of John Sweeney being caught off guard. He should be disciplined for his lack of professionalism and abuse of expenses (taxpayers money) but the BBC have turned a blind eye. #oldboysnetwork  I will privately message you her details if there is anything worthwhile in the next few weeks but not on here as too many on here think the BBC are wonderful.  This is what she posted on Twitter a few days ago."I’ve had a number of people contact me off the record about the BBC. Former employees, friends of current employees and others with truly shocking information. I hope others who work for the BBC soon find the courage to come out. This is incredibly serious... #BBCbias #Panorama"So it's a wait and see.

Paul Game ● 2676d