LABOUR'S CHANCE TO COME OUT FIGHTING

LABOUR'S high command in the Shadow Cabinet has ordained that tomorrow there will be a free vote on John McDonnell's Lawful Industrial Action Bill. It is progress of a sort as my guess is previous regimes would have hauled in the Whips.
That there should be any equivocation at all is both extraordinary and pretty depressing.
100 Labour MPs need to be there voting tomorrow to get this Bill through to its second reading. Plain sailing, no?
In fact some at the top who should know better are already running scared of being branded as trade union fodder and using Shadow Cabinet collectivity to excuse not being there to support this modest , reasonable piece of legislation which would stop companies vetoining strikes for spurious arcane reasons.
It's not militant, it's not extreme, it is basic trade union ABC and backed a by all the general secrtearies. If Labour MPs can't rustle up the numbers tomorrow it's not only a missed opportunity, it is a disgrace which many howling in anguish after yesterday's CSR will not forgive them for.