ShareTweet The acceptance of Tory cuts and the suggestion that Labour will support the pay freeze and even pay cuts has caused even loyal union leaders to criticise the two Eds. In a press release leader of Unison, Dave Prentis said the following: “Our members needed hope and a reason to vote Labour. They…
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ShareTweet The Labour Representation Committee website carries the following article in response to the New Labour turn towards embracing government cuts. Over the weekend Ed Miliband and Ed Balls came out with a succession of statements shifting Labour policy to within an inch of the coalition government. As well as refusing to pledge to…
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ShareTweet By James Meadway Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has come out all guns blazing against the Labour leadership’s ignominious collapse into Osbornomics. After a week in which whatever backbone the Labour frontbench once had crumbled, his intervention is vital – and entirely correct. The economic case against the government’s spending cuts is…
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ShareTweet In an article in today’s Guardian Unite leader warns that by embracing cuts, Ed Balls and Ed Miliband have left all those who stand against them disenfranchised Ed Balls’s sudden embrace of austerity and the public-sector pay squeeze represents a victory for discredited Blairism at the expense of the party’s core supporters. It…
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ShareTweet As attention focuses on the impact of housing benefit cuts in London this week, we look at recent research on their impact and the wider impact of cuts in London. The Government claims that the cuts being made will be fair and progressive, and maintain that the most vulnerable will be protected. However…
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ShareTweet From the Daily Mail With his cut-glass vowels, tweed jacket and collection of stately homes, he is a textbook toff. A direct descendant of Charles II, Sir Reginald lists his recreations in Debrett’s Peerage as shooting and stalking. He can trace his bloodline back to the Knights Templar and the Fifth Crusade, and…
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ShareTweet From The BBC website article (click here to read the full article): TUC chief Brendan Barber has said the public will not accept large-scale spending cuts, as trade unions gather in Manchester. Mr Barber said unions would reach out to the wider community to form a “progressive alliance” to make the case for…
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