The NEW figures on poverty the Tories don’t want you to see before the general election
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have exposed just how dire the situation is for so many people ...
Tag: poverty
DWP is being forced to defend its decision to cut YOUR Universal Credit benefits
Before voters head to the polls in the general election, another likely-to-be damning indictment of the Tories callous cuts to ...
Poverty should be the biggest issue at the general election – but will it be?
A think tank has given a briefing on just how bad poverty and destitution are in the UK, as the ...
The DWP is hiring surveillance snoops for its fascist “benefit fraud” plans
If you ever wanted a job bootlicking for Tory big brother Britain, look no further, because the Department of Work ...
Humans waste over one BILLION meals a day. How can this even be justified?
Households across all continents wasted over one billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by ...
British Gas boss gets an EIGHTY PERCENT payrise while YOU choose between heating & eating
The boss of British Gas's parent company Centrica, Chris O'Shea, was given over an 80% payrise in 2023 - despite ...
High Pay Centre teams up with professors Danny Dorling and Prem Sikka over fat cat pay
A group of over 20 leading academic social scientists, including professors Prem Sikka and Danny Dorling, have written to the ...
Smirking, solutionless Hunt confirms we’re all underpaid in Tory Britain
On 22 March, Jeremy Hunt accidentally agreed that more Britons than ever are underpaid in Tory Britain. On Sunday 24 ...
In Blackpool and Hartlepool housing benefit is paying a THIRD of all PRIVATE rent
A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows that the public are footing the bill for poor-quality private ...
Zarah Sultana came out in support of poverty protesters – while the Hunt in parliament did nothing for them
Campaigners across the UK have been demanding that the Tories sort out rip-off energy bills. This saw protests from Newcastle ...
Rural women are bearing the socioeconomic brunt of the patriarchy-led climate crisis
On Tuesday 5 March, the United Nations' (UN) food and farming agency published a report highlighting the gendered impacts of ...
Parliament is facing more protests – this time over our rip-off energy bills
Parliament will be the scene of yet more protests - after chronically ill and disabled people blocked a major road ...
Not that you needed telling, but UK families’ budgets have fallen more than most 37 OECD countries
UK household spending has fallen more than almost every other OECD country since the pandemic, according to new Trades Union ...
Ofgem and Tories under increasing pressure to stop cruel energy standing charges
New research shows overwhelming support for scrapping the flat-rate daily standing charge on our energy bills, as thousands share their ...
The government is doing nothing about the lies manufacturers sell to us about UK radiators – and it costs us billions
A documentary video produced by supplier UK Radiators has revealed the financial and ethical implications of misinformation in the heating ...
Spineless Ofgem has just allowed energy firms to restart forcing people onto prepayment meters
The energy regulator Ofgem has just agreed that three energy firms can start forcing vulnerable customers onto prepayment meters again. ...
UK families are suffering the ‘worst decline’ in living standards in the G7
The UK is only country in the G7 where household budgets have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels. That's the verdict ...
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