McCluskey's remarks matter because his union is a major paymaster for the Labour Party. Judging by what he had to say he seemed to suggest that Sir Keir Starmer was likely to be a challenger for the leader's job.
The Unite union's policy agreed by the union’s 2016 policy conference made it clear that the union accepted the result of the 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union. It also set out our union’s priorities for dealing with the process of Brexit, which included protecting jobs, defending employment rights, and opposing the racist backlash that the referendum campaign unleashed.
In June 2018, Unite even joined the National Shop Steward's Network (NSSN) which has long been dominated by the Socialist Party (formerly Militant). The ideology of this group has been bitterly anti-EU and has been rooted in a belief in the old-fashion concept of the 'British Road to Socialism'.
The recent affiliation of McCluskey's Unite seems to have been encouraged by a decision by the NSSN in 2018 not to field candidates against the Labour Party in elections.
By linking up with the hole-in-the-corner anti-EU Trotskyist NSSN must now suggest that Unite, which formerly backed Remain, is stuck in the BREXIT trough.
Sir Keir Starmer has now said a second referendum is the 'only way' to break the Brexit deadlock, after Labour suffered a mauling from voters in the European elections.
Meanwhile,three former ministers are now daring Corbyn to sack them in solidarity with Alastair Campbell who was expelled yesterday for saying that he voted LibDem in the European elections.
Mr Corbyn's office has thus far refused to say if the trio would be expelled
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This week's Rochdale meeting with Chris Williamson at Woolworth's Social Club shows the split in the Labour Party runs deep. It will present a problem for Labour in the forthcoming General Election in the North. In an article in the 'New Statesman' last month journalist Alex Niven writes: 'Labour’s fractured marriage with post-industrial communities is reaching breaking point' & 'it is eminently possible that the loss of a tranche of northern seats at the next general election will lead to the defeat of the Corbyn project'.
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