IS Britain to slide back into the 1970s mess with trade unions calling the shots on national political policy and going on strike at the drop of a hat?

I refer now to the demands from Unite boss Red Len McClusky to Milliband to bring home the bacon in return for a £12 million injection into his election campaign with a shopping list of higher taxes, more public spending, and a repeal of all trade union laws passed over the last 30 years, to name a few.

Even worse is the fact that Unite is now telling Labour MPs not to support a ban on gender abortions, where some cultures within Britain would abort a baby if found to be a girl. This is also the same union that the prospective Labour candidate for York Central, Rachael Maskell, works or worked for.

Bob Waite, Windmill Rise, Holgate, York.