.- birmingham city council. ing of course, all politics is about choice and what this government has done is it has caved into its trade union paymasters, it has a settled way above inflation, junior doctors at 22%, train drivers 14% and what it has done is stood up for the trade union paymasters on the backs of vulnerable pensioners and that is right and before i take the intervention, if it�*s not the case of the trade unions are running the labour party, hands up everybody opposite who has not received some money from the trade unions. has not received. has not received our hands up received. has not received our hands up anyone who has not received any money from the trade unions for their campaigning. one person. one person. they in lies the truth. the truth about who was running the labour party. and of course, men and we have seen all of this before. we have seen all of this before. in the last labour government we had the 75p pensioner increase. we had gordon brown�*s stealth tax on private pensions, £118