Union boss slams ‘grifting’ Nigel Farage after he said he regrets taking control of ‘bankrupt’ Worcestershire council Andrea Egan said "Nigel Farage only likes doing easy things that benefit Nigel Farage."

#Unison’s general secretary #AndreaEgan said that #Farage has “no interest in solving the many and serious problems councils and the country face” and that he is more “suited to grift than graft”.

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Starmer’s Labour in terminal decline after Gorton and Denton catastrophe Keir Starmer has vowed to limp on despite Labour’s humiliating trouncing in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

#AndreaEgan, the general secretary of #Unison put the boot in. “The #Greens won for a simple reason—many Labour supporters, in #Manchester and across the country, want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far right, not gleefully abandoned

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1mago 06.50 GMT Labour ‘failing on every count’ under Starmer, says Unison leader Andrea Egan in call for party to shift left Labour’s defeat in Gorton and Denton is likely to reignite calls for Keir Starmer to be replaced as leader. Lucy Powell, Labour’s deputy leader, appeared to anticipate this in comments earlier this morning, when she insisted that Starmer was “the person for the job”. (See 5.31pm.) But this morning Andrea Egan, the relatively new leftwing general secretary of Unison, one of the two biggest unions backing Labour, said the party is “failing on every count” under Starmer. In a statement she said: 44 The Greens won for a simple reason. Many traditional Labour supporters, in Manchester and across the country, want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far-right, not gleefully abandoned. A Labour government should be standing up for workers, defending migrants and refugees, and taking the fight to Nigel Farage rather than letting him set the agenda. Under Keir Starmer the party is failing on every count, leaving the Greens to fill the vacuum. Cosying up to the rich and powerful, and protecting their interests whilst attacking ordinary working people and the left has singularly failed. The prime minister is now reaping the electoral consequences of that strategy. If the government wants to survive, it urgently needs to stand up for workers and defend our fundamental values.

The thing is, nobody really wants the job of Labour Leader right now....

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#AndreaEgan General Secretary of #UNISON, becomes 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝘀𝘀 to publicly complain RE: Lab NEC blocking Burnham's candidacy!

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The election of Andrea Egan as Unison leader: Another false dawn of a left revival under the union bureaucracy Egan’s electoral victory amid mass abstention reveals that the left-wing of the union bureaucracy commands little to no credibility in the working class, despite the deep unpopularity of the most…

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Electoral victory amid mass abstention reveals that left-wing of union bureaucracy commands little to no credibility, despite deep unpopularity of the most pro-business and right-wing Labour government in history

Unison's firebrand boss #AndreaEgan eyes 2026 mega-strikes to gut the UK economy, roasting Labour elites for channeling Thatcher's union-smashing playbook and torching workers' rights!

Today is a good day!!! ☺️ 🎉 👏

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Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan beats Starmer ally to lead Unison Andrea Egan, who was expelled from Labour three years ago, replaces Unison's current general secretary Christina McAnea.

Congratulations to #AndreaEgan @unisontheunion.bsky.social's new general secretary.
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Vote #AndreaEgan for General Secretary of #UNISON

Of current Labour MPs that receive money from UNISON, 95% voted with the currently Labour government on the disability benefit cuts.

Thank you, Nadia Whittome MP, for supporting the truly socialist candidate.