1 September 2010
Cuts hit poor hardest
THE CON-Dem coalition claims that their 'progressive' cuts hit hardest at the rich and that they 'shield' poor families from the effects of austerity...
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18 August 2010
Cameron sticks the boot into our council housing
THE CON-DEM government is determined to use the excuse of a financial crisis to justify its aim to finish what Thatcher started - and Blair and Brown, in effect, continued - the comprehensive dismantling of the welfare state, writes Louise Cuffaro.
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18 August 2010
Private-profit company granted 'snoopers' charter'
PRIME MINISTER David Cameron, using the cover of tackling fraud, is bringing in credit referencing company Experian to challenge the claims of benefit claimants, writes Chris Newby.
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7 July 2010
Housing benefit cuts - increasing homelessness
The budget changes to housing benefit will make the mass of working and middle class people far more insecure in their homes, writes The idea that 'an Englishman's home is his castle' clearly doesn't impress George Osborne!.
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30 June 2010
'Get on your bike'
AT THE height of the 1981 recession Tory cabinet minister Norman Tebbit infamously demanded that the unemployed 'get on their bikes' and move to areas where, supposedly, there were jobs...
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Glenn Kelly, photo Alison Hill |
23 June 2010
Budget Day: workers' responses
'We will fight the bloodbath budget': AS A council workers' representative I sat awaiting our fate from part one of the Con-Dem government's bloodbath budget. Now it's time for us to send them a message, writes Glenn Kelly, Bromley UNISON.
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2 June 2010
Millionaire cabinet plans cuts in benefits
The exposure of millionaire treasury minister David Laws as an expenses cheat is steeped in even deeper hypocrisy than is at first apparent, a London benefits adviser writes.
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A housing protest on the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, photo Elaine Brunskill |
2 June 2010
Gateshead tenants demand decent homes
For years the residents of the Seven Stars Estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead, have been promised by councillors and housing management that their homes would be updated by 2010 with new kitchens, bathrooms, fires and combi-boilers, alongside having houses re-painted and rewired, writes Elaine Brunskill, Newcastle Socialist Party.
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26 May 2010
London 2012 Olympics: A big business spectacle
IN 2012 the Olympics and Paralympics come to east London. On show will be the world's elite sportsmen and women, flexing their muscles and straining their sinews in state-of-the-art stadia. The possibility...
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12 May 2010
Gateshead housing protest
A LIVELY protest took to the streets of the Seven Stars estate in Wrekenton, Gateshead. The demonstrators' chants of "What do we want? Decent homes! When do we want them? Now!" was loud and clear, writes Elaine Brunskill.
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