Not so Red Ed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/aug/02/ed-miliband-plan-curb-unions

Kind of think that the point has been missed a little here by a lot of people in the comments.  Not sure they either read the piece or really understood it.

I am both a union member and a Labour Party member.  I have to confess that I did vote for Ed to become leader, that is because I believed then (and still believe now) that he is the best man for the job [cue other troll posters who want to babble on about how I am deluded, etc...there beat them to it, sticks and stones...]
The point is that the party does need to be reformed and it does need to be taken away from the Blair/Brown era style that it got itself into.  The people obviously got fed up with that.  Miliband is not saying that he is cutting all ties with the unions, he is saying that they need to take responsibility, like politicians, for their actions and need to be held accountable.  He is not saying that he is going to fight the unions, only that they need to understand that the Leader of the Party  is the person in charge and they have the right to say yes or no to union proposals. 

Basically the Party will not be held hostage by the unions, but will rather work alongside them as long as they are responsible.  Simples.  Far more democratic.  Now calm down. (And yes this does appear in the comments of the piece...just wanted to get this out there...)

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