Member

“Why should that matter?” you might ask, “since surely all the political funds will go to the Labour Party or Labour MPs”. Well, it does not. I have tried to look at union accounts, and I started with the obvious one—Unite. Unfortunately, we cannot see any recent accounts from Unite, as over the last three years it has provided only partial accounts to the Certification Officer, the auditors having refused to sign the full accounts because of the ongoing investigation into corruption in relation to the £112 million hotel deal. So, I was forced to go back to the most recent disclosed, which is the 2019 accounts. Have a look inside Unite’s return to the Certification Officer for 2019 to see where the political fund payments go to—it turns out that they list payments to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other organisations. Can that really be what members of Unite want to see their hard-earned wages go to?