in 2002 when tom mcnally said, "the government must guard the public interest as assiduously as mr murdoch guards his shareholder interests." and in 1996 when paddy said that parliament had become "a rotten mess. a dishevelled, disfigured old corpse of what was once called the mother of parliaments." free to tell it like it really is because we are in nobody's pocket. of all the claims ed miliband has made, the most risible is that his party is the enemy of vested interests. while we were campaigning for change in the banking system, they were on their prawn cocktail offensive in the city. while we've led the charge against the media barons, labour has cowered before them for decades. the most shocking thing about the news that tony blair is godfather to one of rupert murdoch's children is that nobody was really shocked at all. and today labour is in hock to the trade union barons, after their government stipend, 95% of labour's money comes from unions. most of it from just four of them. let me be clear, the values of trade unionism are as relevant as ever. supporting workers. fighting for