The Trade Unions are the Labour party's paymasters. 86% of the Labour party's funding come from the pockets of the Trade Unions - the same Trade Unions who want to try and disrupt the Olympics and the daily lives of ordinary working people with meaningless strikes. The Unite Union alone has contriubted £5 million to Labour's coffers over the past 18 months.
Don't be fooled by Ed Milibands 'stand off' approach with the Trade Unions - he meets the Union leaders regularly. Ed Miliband is nothing but a puppet being controlled by Union Barons across the UK - oppose them and they lose their funding.
The attitude of Ed Miliband and the Labour party (including here in Sefton) is clear: Union members first - Britain second.