Osborne prevents new house building, with £1.7 billion cut to social landlords
In the 2015 budget, George Osborne announced a rent reduction to social housing tenants of 1% a year for four ...
Tag: austerity
Osborne plans to take £2,000 a year from soldiers to give the rich a tax cut
Chancellor George Osborne is cutting three major taxes for the richest in society, and he is paying for it by ...
The NHS needs to keep funding IVF, it’s a medical treatment, not a lifestyle choice
IVF is the latest victim of the NHS funding crisis. As local NHS groups across England scrabble around to find ...
The government just delivered a massive ‘F*ck you’ to sick and disabled people across Britain
The War on Welfare (WoW) petition gathered over 104,000 signatures demanding a Cumulative Impact Assessment of austerity on sick and disabled people and ...
‘Crack and Cider’ to help the homeless
Crack and Cider, the "world's first shop for the homeless", will open in Hackney on Wednesday. Customers will be able ...
The campaign we needed on mental health is finally happening
An unprecedented campaign has been launched today calling for an increase in funding for mental health services in England, and ...
Pensioner dies after Boris Johnson shut his local fire station
Austerity kills. No matter how it is dressed up. Cutting budgets to public services leads to people suffering and in ...
Cornwall leads the way in austerity busting alternatives
Despite deepening levels of poverty, Cornish communities are showing there are ways of creating alternatives to austerity and deprivation. One ...
Jeremy Hunt lies to junior doctors over pay – again!
This Wednesday, Jeremy Hunt gave a guarantee to junior doctors that “no junior doctor will see their pay cut compared to ...
Local councils could hold key to blocking more Tory cuts
As austerity begins to bite really deep, people are urging their local representatives to reject the government’s relentless cuts. Regional ...
The UK and Spain are united by austerity and repression
Last month, David Cameron and Spain's right-wing Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, issued a joint article on industrial competitiveness, for publication ...
Austerity hits disabled people hardest, Cameron must be held to account
A new kind of politics saw Jeremy Corbyn raise an uncomfortable issue for the Conservative government at this week's Prime Ministers ...
Cameron freaks out over Lords’ plan to block tax credit cuts
Peers in the House of Lords are planning to block the government's proposed cuts to tax credits in a vote ...
Tory MP says tax credit cuts ‘betray’ Tory values, but doesn’t vote against them
Heidi Allen, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, made an impassioned maiden speech. She attacked the Conservative party's cuts to tax ...
The crisis Cameron said his cuts would never cause is happening now
Prime Minister David Cameron promised that the NHS, and the rest of the public services, would be safe in his ...
Student housing victory shows protest can achieve results
Campaigners at University College London (UCL) are celebrating, having won a victory against management after complaints about the conditions in ...
Kelly from PMQs is real and she spoke to The Canary
“I’m one of the luckier ones,” says Kelly Ward, 39, a Nursery Manager from Lancashire who stands to lose £1,800 ...
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