Council bosses want to give themselves 12% pay rises. For what, you may ask…
Proposed salary increases for local council bosses, averaging 12%, have provoked a backlash among community members and council workers. Amidst ...
Tag: austerity
Cancer Research’s new study gives politicians another excuse to blame poor people
Cancer Research UK has published a new cancer study, specifically on death rates across the UK. Crucially, it identified enormous ...
The Tories were literally trying to kill us off – as new life expectancy figures show
A new study has exposed a staggering fall in life expectancy growth across Europe. Crucially, it revealed that improvement in ...
Labour wants to make real-terms CUTS to fire services – and only the FBU has noticed
Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Steve Wright has pushed back against Labour Party real-terms cut to fire and rescue ...
The UK wants to ‘learn’ from Elon Musk over cuts to public services. No, really.
15 years of government cuts have decimated key public services. Politicians' prioritisation of corporate interests has left the country massively ...
Matt Wrack demands ‘more investment’ as attacks on firefighters hit 15-year high
Data collected by Legal Expert has cast light on the threat faced by firefighters around the UK and led to Matt Wrack, ...
Rachel Reeves has already walked back her budget, issuing fresh austerity cuts for public services
Like George Osborne before her, chancellor Rachel Reeves has branded austerity as 'efficiency savings'. If successive governments have already starved ...
New study hammers home findings that austerity is to blame for sick babies
Researchers have linked austerity policies to an increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies in Scotland. Studies in ...
#SwindonsSundaySermon: why hassle Bezos for tax when you can kill off disabled people?
For one moment I was concerned I might not make the deadline for this latest, Labour budget-themed instalment of Swindon’s ...
The numbers are in. Rachel Reeves’ budget will manufacture a fresh cost of living crisis.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves failed to use her budget to address out of control inequality nor to bring about significant or ...
Starmer near as damn it ADMITTED the Autumn Budget will hammer poor people
Keir Starmer has shamelessly and pre-emptively defended the Labour Party's decisions on taxes and public spending which chancellor Rachel Reeves ...
Jeremy Corbyn demands Rachel Reeves halts Labour’s austerity 2.0 plans
Cross-party MPs including former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell have written to Rachel Reeves ...
Even the TUC has issued a stark warning to Labour over Rachel Reeves’ first budget
In its budget submission published on Friday 4 October, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) sets out the challenges of the ...
Rachel Reeves just ABANDONED a pledge she made a WEEK ago at Labour conference
In Chancellor Rachel Reeves' speech at Labour conference, she said: It is time the Treasury moved on from just counting ...
Wes Streeting felt the wrath of Victoria Derbyshire over winter fuel payments cut
Wes Streeting is no stranger to tying himself in knots during interviews. However, at the Labour conference he showed how ...
Labour shamelessly BLOCKS winter fuel payments debate at conference
Maybe unsurprisingly, party honchos have blocked a debate on the cuts to the winter fuel payments at this years Labour ...
New figures show public transport is in a worse mess than housing and education
Public transport provision has seen the sharpest post-pandemic decline of all the Levelling Up missions, an even bigger hit than ...
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