<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ccffdb4b-e2e9-47f4-8f0c-6b8f35f37175/99826FF3-166E-4921-9B6C-6F190E43BEAC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html" href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html" style="font-size: 11px;">timesonline.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html"><P>While the Unite leadership ponders <A href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/bloggers-are-interested-in-derek-draper-lobby-correspondents-in-damian-mcbride-but-me--i-have-been-wondering-about-charlie.html">whether Charlie Whelan's behaviour is appropriate</A> for a senior member of their staff, they might also like to ponder how effective he is as its political director.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/timesonline.typepad.com/img/FE28C5EA-96CE-4039-9FC3-67C9CF44A72C" alt="Unite" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html"><P>First, while at the last general election 22 per cent of the sample recalled voting Tory and 48 per cent Labour, now 31 per cent would vote Conservative and only 34 per cent Labour.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html"><P>Second, many more Unite member (37 per cent to 27 per cent) think David Cameron would be the best person to lead Britain forward as Prime Minister than think that person would be Gordon Brown.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html"><P>Third, a series of questions reveal that more than half the Unite membership believes each of the following statements - that the Labour Party does not share its values, does not have strong leadership, is not honest and principled, does not understand people like them and is not competent and capable.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/99826FF3-166E-4921-9B6C-6F190E43BEAC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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