article_snippet.sent: All the smiles cannot hide the reality that McCluskey and McCluskey union are a potent, sinister force in British politics .
article_snippet.sent: Yet all the smiles cannot hide the reality that McCluskey and McCluskey union are a potent, sinister force in British politics, seeking to use McCluskey and his union financial and organisational muscle within the Labour movement to drag Britain back to the dark days of the 1970s.
article_snippet.sent: Indeed, McCluskey, a former Liverpool dock worker who keeps a drawing of Lenin in his office and once boasted of presiding over more strikes than any other union boss, is quite open about his yearning for that period when the unions held Tory Government to ransom: 'We are supposed to believe that the Seventies was a horrible time.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's umbilical link to McCluskey's union has received much less attention in recent days than a potential deal with the left-wing, anti-austerity SNP, yet it is just as potentially disastrous for the governance of this country.
article_snippet.sent: Just like Nicola Sturgeon, McCluskey wants to make Labour bolder, 'more radical, courageous and brave'.
article_snippet.sent: Only last month, McCluskey appeared to threaten illegal action if a Tory Government pushed through further restrictions on strikes in the public sector. '
article_snippet.sent: Yet there was something synthetic about McCluskey's protestations of support for Labour.
article_snippet.sent: Beneath the surface, I have no doubt McCluskey longs to hear Ed offering more nakedly socialist policies, rather than trying to appeal to Middle England.
article_snippet.sent: Moreover, if Labour and Unite really think that McCluskey is an asset in the election, Labour and Unite are doing Labour and Unite best to keep quiet about it.
article_snippet.sent: On the contrary, McCluskey is pivotal to Labour's future because of the stranglehold McCluskey union has over the party.
article_snippet.sent: Tragically for Britain, there is now a real danger that an incoming Labour government would be forced to lurch even further to the Left, not just by SNP by also by Unite, with Miliband too weak to stand up to those who are determined Miliband will be those who are determined he will be their puppet in Downing Street puppet in Downing Street.