‘Free School Meals For All’ should be a no-brainer from Labour
On Tuesday 23 July, campaigners, politicians, and trade unions gathered at parliament to call on the new Labour Party government ...
Tag: poverty
The Guardian’s political rehabilitation of Gordon Brown is… *insert expletive here*
With the advent of a New-New neoliberal lovelorn Labour Party government, what better time is there for a big corporate ...
Labour starts as it means to go on: doing NOTHING for the poorest people
The king's speech on Wednesday 17 July was nothing if a direct play to the Labour Party's now-target audience: the ...
The corporate media is using DWP claimants for clicks over Universal Credit
Corporate media outlet BirminghamLive has published another misleading article on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit. In ...
The country is crumbling, but don’t worry the King has donned his jewels to speak to the peasants
The king's speech from Charlie outlined the Labour Party's first programme for government in 15 years. Wearing the diamond-studded Imperial ...
Angela Rayner is STILL defending Labour’s position on the two-child limit
The Labour Party is gearing up for its first King's Speech on Wednesday 17 July. Ahead of this, politicians from ...
A national disgrace: Glasgow’s child homelessness crisis represents a UK-wide Tory failure
On 15 July, news emerged from Glasgow that 3,000 children are currently homeless. While this is a particularly harrowing statistic ...
The general election just BURIED news about the DWP’s Universal Credit roll out
With all eyes trained on the final sprint to general election day, a local news site quietly dropped news on ...
A foodbank shutting up shop for the election is the perfect metaphor for this political farce
A single post on X is the most fitting metaphor for this absolute clown show of a general election. In ...
Energy firms are hoarding £3 BILLION in YOUR customer credit and making £159m in interest alone
Over two-thirds of Welsh billpayers (70%) are calling for energy suppliers to automatically return any customer credit in their account ...
General election candidates are being asked ‘what are YOU going to do about poverty?’
All political parties are being asked to tackle poverty, with nearly 5,000 emails sent to candidates across the country ahead ...
The Tories have thrown 1,300 children a WEEK into poverty since 2010
Analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows the Tories have presided over a 44% (+900,000) increase in the number ...
DWP has already started moving ESA claimants to Universal Credit as ‘guinea pigs’
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly pressed ahead with forcing ESA benefit claimants onto Universal Credit. Crucially, ...
‘It’s now not about teaching, it’s about keeping kids fed’: the reality of the UK’s hardship epidemic exposed
New research shows how Britain’s primary schools and GP surgeries are staggering under the weight of hardship as they divert ...
The one graph that should shame the Tories – and Boris Johnson – at the general election
Boris Johnson's flagship policy when he was Conservative Party prime minister has failed, according to new analysis. Everyone outside of ...
Ghoul Penny Mordaunt is promoting her rebranded foodbanks again
Former Tory MP for Portsmouth North Penny Mordaunt has had quite the career: from reality TV to Charlie's coronation via ...
Starmer’s idea of giving “every child the best start” leaves hundreds of thousands of them in poverty
Keir Starmer was in Nuneaton on 10 June to campaign for his policies for UK children at the general election. ...
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