Derek Hatton

He's back in vogue now as well, isn't he? Yeah, and

Derek Hatton's still around as well.

Is he really? Yeah, still around doing various things in Liverpool, I think, anyway.

Right.

He would, he sometimes would invent affairs.

He invented an affair in terms of Derek Hatton, who was a sort of l- a Liverpool politician.

He's...

You must just Google him if you don't know who he is 'cause it's too dif- [laughs] too long to explain.

It's Fancy Dress Friday.

All right, Derek, calm down.

I think it brings joy to people, you know.

I mean, joking apart, it's quite an achievement, this art

As far as we're concerned, there is no position within the career structure for those people who've shown themselves to be very anti-trade union and have no real concern for the people of this city and for the employees.

Derek Hatton looked as if he could have come straight into politics from running a PR company or a record label.

He became Millicent's deputy mayor of Liverpool and its figurehead.

For a few years, he'd have been recognised anywhere in the country.

So when Neil Kinnock denounced Millicent at the Labour Party conference...

And you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council, a Labour council hiring taxis to scuttle round the city, handing out redundancy notices to its own workers...

the TV cameras cut straight to Derek Hatton to see how he'd react.

Much later, in 1993, Derek Hatton stood trial for fraud and he was acquitted.

The term free people's state found in the Gotha program comes from them rather than from the Lassalleans.

Page 19 Keeping Which Flag Flying by Anne Fields Quotes When I die you'll be the last man standing Keep the flag flying End quotes Thus did Derek Hatton introducing the inaugural Tony Mulhern Memorial Lecture in Liverpool on Monday 28th September recall one of his last conversations with Mulhern, who died in 2019.

Hatton and Mulhern had been two of the 47 Liverpool councillors surcharged and banned from holding office in 1985 for having delayed setting a rate.

Hatton did not expand upon which flag he was meant to keep flying.

The right answer to the question, according to McCluskey, was wait and see.

But it could have been worse.

McCluskey refrained from asking, is Derek Hatton on our side? And no one had the temerity to ask the question, are the Flanagan brothers on our side? Along with Hatton and former Liverpool layout mayor Joe Anderson, the Flanagan brothers, who run a property development company of the same name, are currently awaiting trial to face charges of bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery in relation to contracts awarded by Liverpool City Council.

As they perhaps, are they perhaps an example of the property developers that have transformed Liverpool, so admired by Hatton? By coincidence, the Flanagan brothers are also McCluskey's personal friends and were awarded the contract in the absence of a competitive tendering process to build Unite's Birmingham Hotel and Conference Centre during his terms of office as General Secretary.