"For too long it has been everyday people, workers and communities who have paid the price for crisis after crisis not of their making. In 2026 this must stop. The government needs to decide what it stands for and who it stands for. If we have to ask, it is not working. The party faithful can agonise about its failing leadership and a night of the long knives'. But a new Labour leadership with the same policies simply won't cut it."
"Unite, Labour's most powerful union backer, was the only union that did not endorse the party's manifesto as it did not back jobs, Graham said. We fought back on the winter fuel allowance cut and the self-harm of net zero targets that came without the needed investment in new industries. Trade unions are there to fight for workers, not to side with politicians, she said."
The government must do more for workers in 2026 or risk sowing the seeds of its own destruction. Everyday people, workers and communities have borne the price of repeated crises not of their making, and that must stop in 2026. A change of leader without different policies will not secure worker support. More austerity lite will not break the doom loop; Britain requires vision and industrial investment to compete in the fourth industrial revolution. Trade unions exist to fight for workers, not to side with politicians, and stealth taxes on workers undermine trust.
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