Is it 'money laundering'?

The Telegraph reports on UNITE and its receipt of monies from 'two little-known funds to improve management and training for its members.

It has been the biggest beneficiary of one of the schemes, the Union Modernisation Fund, and received a sixth of all the money given out under the Union Learning Fund.'

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'Francis Maude, the Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, said: “This really looks like money laundering - taxpayers' money is being funnelled into Unite then put straight back into Labour's coffers.

“It's a real racket, with taxpayers' money being round-tripped into Gordon Brown's re-election fund. We must have much greater transparency on what unions are receiving from the Labour Government in return for their backhanders.” '


The Conservatives are fighting back at Labour's slurs about Lord Ashcroft but so long as the BBC push the Lord Ashcroft story and ignore the UNITE funding story, the Conservatives might as well be pissing into the wind. Time to take the attack to the BBC, have the Conservative leadership got the balls?