Corrupt trade union boss steals £165,000 from members

I really have no issue with your line of work, voluntary work whatever; I just take offence at arrogance, specially where there is not a reason in the whole wide world to be arrogant

Wait. Are you trying to tell me that you specialise in employment law? And you have the gall to suggest I am stupid?

Hahahah, I would sooner admit to ******** myself.

No, I only need to be involved in an area of law which isn't mainly dealt with by high-street paralegals and retired school teachers at the local Citizens Advice.

given your line of (voluntary) work.

I didn't brag about it. I said that my trade union and employment law experience meant I was better able to comment on employment law and industrial relations issues. Presumably you don't actually deny that to be true, do you?



You seem to be confused. Pointing out that my knowledge of employment law is superior to yours is not arrogance, it's an expression of fact. You claim no expertise in that area. In any case, your accusation of arrogance is laughable in light of comments like;



Physician, heal thyself.



Yes, I have been a volunteer caseworker at a law centre while I've studied. In that capacity I've done five preliminary hearings and a four-day discrimination trial, drafted ET1s / particulars of claim, instructions to counsel, Rule 30 applications, probably written over 100 advice letters, dealt with clerks and insurers, taken witness statements, drafted schedules of loss.

Perhaps more relevant, I'm starting my pupillage in September next year at an employment-oriented set and it was the experience I gained volunteering at a law centre that pushed me over the line. In light of that and my prior trade union experience, unless you claim some particular expertise in employment law, my claim to superior knowledge and experience was not arrogance but simply a straightforward factual assertion.

What precisely is it you do? You seem very cagey about that. I suspect probably a frustrated legal academic, maybe a tutor at some regional university where you feel embittered the world never recognised your true genius and potential. See, I don't care if that's what you do, I wouldn't look down on you for it or think worse of you. But if it or something like it is true, there's no doubt you carry around a pretty big chip on your shoulder as a result of it. But I guess at least you get to feel like the big man going on the Relationships forum to interact with 17 year olds having boyfriend problems, and doling ACAS advice to high school students. It's all so unthreatening, so unlike your experience of the real world.

Anyway, time to add you to my ignore list so I don't have to see your vapid, substance-free posts anymore. You are a very self-absorbed, nasty, paranoid, arrogant person but what makes you particularly unpleasant is that gnawing black hole of insecurity that radiates from you, that is evident from almost every post you make and every laughable boast and outburst of misplaced snobbery. Goodbye

As a (reluctant and disillusioned) Labour Party member and someone who has been involved in trade unions as a branch officer, I find Lavery's behaviour to be disgusting. And unfortunately, his conduct is not rare in the really left-wing trade unions. Len McCluskey had his house paid for by the union, so did Scargill.

Their best interests are, it's great for Tube drivers to earn what they do and it was great for Bob to remain their favourite leader forever. Not so great for millions of affected Londoners who find it all a bit unjustified but good for their lot anyway.

They are as human as the 'greedy bosses'