Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has warned he will fight further cuts to the armed forces in Chancellor George Osborne‘s forthcoming spending review. After No 10 warned publicly last month that the military would not be immune from further financial retrenchment, … Continue reading
MPS are demanding a 32 per cent pay rise, after complaining they cannot live on £65,000 a year. A survey reveals 69 per cent believe they are ‘underpaid’ following the introduction of a new expenses regime that forces them to … Continue reading
THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER 2012 Iain MacWhirter Columnist IN 1931, when the Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald cut unemployment benefit in an economic depression, the Labour Party split and was almost destroyed as a political force for the next decade. But … Continue reading
APPEALS against the Government’s “fit to work” tests cost taxpayers more than £25million in the first half of this year. And 40% of people who appealed against Atos Healthcare’s decisions were successful. The firm carried out an average of … Continue reading
More cuts will see Equality and Human Rights Commission lose financial autonomy, and so its A-list rating, UN warns The UN could strip Britain’s statutory human rights body of its “A-list” status because of deep cuts by the coalition government, … Continue reading
One in seven MPs have never had a proper job, according to research. And in addition to those who have absolutely no experience of working in the real world, many more have served only brief stints as lobbyists or public … Continue reading
The ‘tough love‘ prescription of the so-called Wisconsin model proved a bitter pill when the jobs dried up The so-called Wisconsin model of welfare reform has fascinated UK politicians on both sides of the political divide, offering a seemingly straightforward … Continue reading
Cameron’s social cleansing of the unclean starts today, now families having more than three children will be penalised, Cameron doesn’t care about increasing poverty, he doesn’t care about children “He left his own down the boozer”, his goal is to cleanse society … Continue reading
The plans include a new crackdown on housing benefit and a “mark two” system of universal credit to help push people off benefits back into full-time, rather than part-time, work. There are also understood to be a range of … Continue reading