Falkirk is a 'Monty Python parody of the Soviet Union,' Nick Clegg says He added: "I find the whole thing so mysterious that the Labour party is run like this. The Labour party leadership appear to be, you know, puppets on a string run by these trade union bosses. How the trade union bosses then get elected, how they raise money, how they disperse money, it's a complete and utter mystery to me. Something seriously dodgy clearly happened in Falkirk. It really is time that the Labour party leadership come clean with people about exactly what happened so people know given this is a party that wants to run the country from May 2015 onwards, what kind of party it is. Labour has refused to open a fresh investigation into the candidate selection process despite calls by senior party figures including Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor, and Jack Straw, the former Home Secretary.