New Labour

Er, hello

Spose I'd best put something on here to, y'know, make it look a bit more full.

I was in the pub the other day, and was listening to a New Labourite from Sunderland (I was mildly intrigued by this) arguing politics with a guy who sounded like his brain had been mixed up with a Sun Says columnist's.

Questions over union training fund

The new Union Modernisation Fund, worth £5m, is to be spent over the next two years training the next generation of senior unionists on behalf of new Labour.

The fund, which would have to be matched by any union taking up the offer, has a stated aim of helping trade unions 'adapt to meet the challenges of the modern workplace'.

The Department of Trade and Industry has finished setting up a board to oversee the DTI's newest initiative, launched in conjunction with the TUC.

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