The Labour Party has just released an email to staff members abour redundancies.
It states:
"The objective of all of us is that the Party should be a 'one term opposition'. To achieve this we need to make changes which are sometimes painful but necessary like those I’ve described above. I know this is not easy, but if we are to show people we are serious about cutting the debts of the country then we must also cut the debts of The Labour Party."
Labour sources say that there will only be a "handful" of redunancies but they are necessary to "balance the books".
The party will have to make estimated savings of £1.7m.
Comments
ZenithB / June 16 2012 10:16pm
Labour can in their own subtle ways afford the Tories a good deal of support in their policy of cuts. If it was the speed about which they were a little concerned, now they are obviously catching up.
It must seem a good thing to them that the Tories start something which they can carry on with later without fear of being immediately reproached by their supporters.
The Tories, too, love seeing Labour initiate something, much to their advantage (by Tony Blair's standard, anyway), which, if they tried to do themselves, might have aroused too much opposition.
What then, man, do you forget that's politics?