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Child Poverty: Alive And Kicking
It came as a surprise to me when I learned that, a very long time ago, all three major British political parties signed up to a target to eliminate child poverty in this country by 2020. Surprising in...
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Falling Behind in the Global Race
This country is divided into those who insist that globalisation means that the service and industrial sectors of the economy must compete in a race to the bottom in employee pay, rights and benefits...
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The Greens Hit Out At Unions
The Green Party, in the style of other protest movements, has spent a good deal of time attacking the uniformity and failures, both real and imagined, of the political establishment. And, following the...
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Wow! A Fair Change to Welfare*
*Almost. Like the majority of people I know, I always open the newspaper with a sense of foreboding. What has the Coalition messed up today? And the chances are that another employer has folded, the...
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£20,000 Pay Rise For MPs? Ouch…
It is perhaps inevitable that, where employees can set their own wages, their pay is likely to rise to artificially high levels. However, this does not explain why the Independent Parliamentary...
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Will No-one Defend Our Liberty?
It is rare for anybody to find a political party with which they find their actions and policies to be in compete agreement. In fact, this is probably a logical impossibility given the fact that there...
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The Great Student Loans Rip-off
When Student Loans were rolled out in Britain, initially to replace Maintenance Grants and later to cover university fees, Conservative, New Labour and Liberal Democrat ministers all promised that,...
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We’re Almost Rid Of Qatada
Abu Qatada must be the most loathed man in Britain. The so-called ‘Islamic’ hate preacher has resisted deportation to his birth country of Jordan, where he was convicted of terrorism in 1999. Instead,...
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Gove Plots Sale of Our Schools
If there was any doubt that our u-turn prone Education Secretary had covert plans to use the roll out of academies and free schools to privatise the last wholly state-owned public service- the schools...
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The NHS: Many Happy Returns
Today the British public- those of us who’ve noticed- celebrate the 65th anniversary of the launch of the National Health Service. The jewel in the crown of the welfare state and a source of intense...
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Profit Before Our Health
As written for the new youth blog The Up and Coming Writers. I strongly recommend that you have a look at it, as there is a wealth of writing talent to be found there! Last week, the Coalition...
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The Real Motive for Spending Cuts
A couple of recent quotes from the two most powerful people in the British Government now prove that the austerity project has not been embarked on with the spirit of reluctance that we are encouraged...
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The Cruelty of Worcestershire County Council
Worcestershire County Council has achieved something amazing. Something that has not only stunned us all, but something that has stunned us again with the little attention it has received. If you...
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Syria
The UN emblem Syria. The civil war. An issue which has become impossible to ignore as much of the world prepares to commit acts of warfare to remove the regime which is thought to have “crossed the red...
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The Best Way To Help Minimum Wage Workers Is To Increase The Minimum Wage
The Conservative Party seems to have had a change of heart. After voting through real terms cuts in the National Minimum Wage (NMW) every year since it came to Office, many in the party are concerned...
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Mind The £8,000,000 Gap
The GMB trade union has shocked the Labour Party with its implementation of Ed Miliband’s proposed union-Labour link changes in advance of the special conference in 2014 that will officially enact the...
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#Unite The Union Is Owed A Huge Apology
Remember the Falkirk controversy, people? If not, you can refresh your memory here. Well, the Labour Party has announced that Unite the Union and its associates are all absolutely innocent of the...
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Losers, Lefties and Liberals at Conference
Britain is now well into Party Conference season, with the Liberal Democrats now midway through their annual gathering in Glasgow. The desperation of the party leadership is becoming increasingly...
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Where I Agree With Nick… And Where I Don’t
Credit where credit is due. The Liberal Democrats have secured a significant policy change that represents a step towards a political aim that is very important to me. Yesterday, it was announced that...
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No Cuts To The NHS? That’s Not True
The Conservative Party entered the last General Election promising to ‘ringfence’ the National Health Service budget. It was a shrewd political move: the NHS is the one public service the public would...
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