The extremist Left behind Ed Miliband

Perhaps you were in Cuba for the 51st anniversary of the Communist take over in 2010? If you had been there then you must have bumped into Tony Woodley, until 2011 the highly paid General Secretary of the Unite union, who was in Havana to speak in support of Castro and his totalitarian communist state. Woodley was succeeded by Red Len McClusky. Not surprisingly McClusky was a supporter of Militant in the 80s. You may remember that Militant was a Trotskyist entryist group which succeeded in taking control of sections of the Labour Party.

It’s must be fortunate that Woodley and McClusky have much in common with other union leaders such as Derek Simpson. Simpson is another unionist who was a member of the Communist Party until it closed in 1991. His communist principles must mean a lot to him as he relies on the continuing support of the Unite union who have provided him with an £800,000 grace and favour mansion for the rest of his life, or that of his most recent partner, whichever is longest. In 2011 the Taxpayer’s Alliance calculated his income for the year had been over £500,000, making him not only the highest paid communist unionist in the UK, but the highest paid union leader of any political persuasion.

Of course we already know Bob Crow, the well paid leader of the RMT union, and a self-confessed communist. But we shouldn’t forget Mark Serwotka, the leader of PCS, the civil service union. He has been a supporter of the Trotskyist Socialist Organiser and Socialist Alliance groups, and appears to support George Galloways Respect Party. Just the man, in fact, that the nation needs to lead its civil servants. When he became leader of the PCS he vowed to draw only the salary of an average civil servant. But by 2011 he was on £126,000 a year, which either suggests he has modified his views on his salary or that the average civil servant is doing very well indeed.

But these current union leaders, the financial and political backers of Ed Miliband, are only following in their father’s footsteps. Men such as Arthur Scargill have adopted explicitly communist views. Scargill has said that Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin explain the real world. Mick McGahey, the Scottish miners leader was a lifelong communist. Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones were also communists, and it would seem that Jones provided intelligence to the KGB in return for cash. But such links appear to have paid off as the NUM under Scargill received funding from the so-called German Democratic Republic, the workers paradise many of these union leaders aspired to create here in the UK.

So what about Ed Miliband? A political leader who is entirely dependent for his position on the backing of union leaders who hold extremist left wing views. A political leader whose party is entirely dependent for its financial future on these same extremist left wing unionists. The idea that the Labour Party is a centre-left organisation is completely undermined in the light of the extreme views held by the Party’s paymasters.

But of course Ed Miliband is at home among communists. His father was a Marxist till he died, and his grandfather fought against the Free Poles with the army of Stalin’s Soviet Union. He grew up surrounded by Marxists and appears to turn naturally to the communist union leaders of our own times for support. Are the natural electors of Labour MPs aware that when they vote Labour they get Communism? Indeed are the British people aware of how entrenched those who hold communist views are in politics, local government and public service?

Look under the bed. The Reds have never gone away and now they have the prospect of gaining a greater control over the UK than they could have imagined possible.