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  Keith, sorry to resort to cutting and pasting but:-
  
  
  'In a report in 2009, International Policy Network disclosed that between 2003 and 2006 the Trades Union Congress received over £1.2 in taxpayers' money ostensibly intended for promoting development in poor countries. A significant amount of this money - which came from the UK Department for International Development (an entity created by the Labour Party in 1997) - was spent in the UK on activities that do not seem to have yielded any practical benefit to the poor either inside or outside of Britain.
  
  Subsequently, IPN discovered that the TUC was recently granted a further £2.4 million by DfID for the period 2009 - 2011.
  
  The new support to the TUC comes from funds intended for large international development NGOs with a track record in poor countries. It's unclear why this trend has been broken to fund a British trades union.
  
  To make matters worse, unions that are members of the TUC represent over half the funding of the Labour Party. Since the DfID grants to the TUC come with few constraints, it is possible that DfID's money could essentially substitute for money that would otherwise come from member unions - freeing them up to give more to the Labour Party.'
  
  The full horror can be read by downloading the report 'A Closer Union: The Political Abuse of Foreign Aid' from the IPN website.
  
  Amongst other facts therein is the information that DFiD grants to the TUC were spent on courses to teach Trades Unions how to get more grants from the DFiD!!!!
  
  You really couldn't make it up....

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