Some questions for Unite:

BRILLO

: Who finances you?

DRAPER: We publish every year who finances us, different donations.

BRILLO: Who does?

DRAPER: Well, we haven't published it yet. But I can tell you we had some money from a trade union and we had some money from a few independent Labour people


Truly independent blogs don't need funding to be set up. You just got wordpress or blogger and set up a free account and weyhey you're off. Presumably no money has been spent by LabourList on PR as it

had it's launch held for free

at Labour HQ. Derek and Alex Smith the editors presumably are paid for all the "brilliant" work they do...

So why the need for so many donors?

What is this money being spent on?

As TB has already revealed this morning - it sure as hell ain't rent.

LabourList doesn't publicise the fact that it is actually run out of the offices of

FlowVideo

, a private company set up by Mr and Mrs Kate Garraway:

Funny that this isn’t mentioned on LabourList. Equally odd is why Draper would need funding from Unite the Union to set up the website and have somewhere to run it out of, when he already has an office that his company is already renting.

So then Derek, for the sake of the openness and transparency that you have now called for in the blogosphere, turning over a new leaf, and what not, what is the Unite money going on because it isn’t office costs? Why are you pretending that you have a “suite” when in reality it’s a post office box?

Why freely publicise the location of your actual office on one website and go to the effort of getting a mailbox and fake “suite” for another? Why the need to hide LabourList away?

Draper is the last person to be calling for a new open blogosphere given his track record and his refusals to be clear himself. Given that the taxpayer has funded one branch of these smear operations with McBride and that Union subs fund Draper, there is some explaining that needs to be done here. People have said that Draper can’t be fired because LabourList is his etc, this would be the case if it was really an independent project, but it’s not, Draper has Unite the Union to answer to as well as other anonymous private donors.

How happy are they with this weekend’s devastating revelations?

How happy is the average Unite worker with what Draper is doing with their hard earned money?

Unite subs are being used to fund disgusting gutter politics and they can't be happy about this. This weekend has proved who is pulling the strings of LabourList and some light has to be cast on who is funding this dancing to a merry tune? Wheelan, another disgraced attack dog who disappeared, only to resurface at Unite was CC'd into the smear emails, so is it the official line of the whole of the Unite the Union executive that they support this weekends fun and games?

· How much Unite member subs money has been given to LabourList?

· How much Unite member subs money is being spent on ‘rent’ in Piccadilly?

· On what terms is the Unite funding provided and on what timescale?