Tag: austerity

A comprehensive study of living standards among working people in Britain has been completed by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation this week, and ...

Private companies already fleece us on trains, now Osborne’s flogging them our stations

23 February 2016

An array of UK train stations are set to be privatised, it has been revealed. The sell-off could include some ...

You can’t trust the Tories with the economy, and these 7 charts prove it

by Bex Sumner

22 February 2016

For years now, we've been told, "you can't trust Labour with the economy". And that message has hit home. Poll after poll shows ...

Corbyn wins 18 elections by a landslide, the media’s silence is deafening

19 February 2016

Jeremy Corbyn was given a decisive mandate from Labour's youth wing in party elections on Thursday. On regional boards and ...

Met police refused water cannons, now caught hiding them (VIDEOS)

by Emily Apple

16 February 2016

The Metropolitan police have been caught hiding three water cannons behind their Gravesend training ground, despite having been refused permission ...

It’s official: Tory cuts to social services lead to ‘biggest rise in death rates since the war’

17 February 2016

The Tories' austerity programme has led to the biggest rise in death rates among the elderly for nearly 50 years. ...

Osborne freezes public sector pay, while taxpayers fund another pay rise for MPs

by Mike Carr

12 February 2016

As Chancellor, George Osborne's austerity measures cut deep. But as he freezes public sector workers' pay, taxpayers will be funding another ...

Cameron is buying off Tory rebels with £300 million of taxpayer’s cash

Corruption in the Conservative government is a hot topic this week. Following an announcement by Greg Clark, the Communities and ...

Osborne wrote austerity into our laws, now experts warn how deep it will bite

George Osborne has been warned by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) that his Fiscal Charter will require him to ...

6 simple ways to fix the NHS and end the junior doctors’ strike

by Ed Sykes

The junior doctors' strike on 10 February was not inevitable. Simple steps could have been taken to resolve the dispute, ensuring ...

Cameron’s own mother and aunt take action against his cruel cuts to children’s services

9 February 2016

Children's services are suffering so badly under the Conservative government's austerity agenda that even David Cameron's own mother and auntie ...

Tories secretively scrap free meal grants for primary school children

The Conservative government have secretively scrapped grants that provide free school meals for almost 3,000 primary schools. In October 2015, ...

The Tories have found a new way to strip disabled people of their independence

5 February 2016

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The Conservative government's relentless austerity programme just sunk its ugly teeth even deeper into the disabled people of Britain. Nearly ...

Editor-in-Chief of The Canary smashes myth of austerity to bits (VIDEO)

by Drew Rose

3 February 2016

https://youtu.be/eJYCXjXiu9k The mainstream media have largely accepted the Tories' rationale for 'austerity'. If we all just tighten our belts and ...

GPs threaten mass resignation in extraordinary challenge to Jeremy Hunt (VIDEO)

by Bex Sumner

2 February 2016

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In an extraordinary special conference in London on 30 January, GPs voted to take "the nuclear option" to protect their own ...

IDS has no shame, he’s now going to waste taxpayers’ money fighting the most vulnerable (VIDEO)

by Mike Carr

1 February 2016