Category: Tories
Welfare “reform” kills
December 6th, 2011, 4 Comments
Just some of the people who committed suicide after their (disability) benefits were stopped:
Richard Sanderson, 44, an unemployed helicopter pilot of Southfields in London, who stabbed himself twice in the heart in May. He had been informed that his family faced a £30 a week cut in housing benefit and he feared this would leave [...]
Victory to the public sector workers
November 30th, 2011, No Comments
Today public sector workers in the UK are on strike. According to a BBC poll,
the majority of the British public supports them:
An opinion poll commissioned by BBC News suggests 61% of people believe public sector workers are justified in going on strike over pension changes.
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Younger people, it also suggests, are considerably more supportive of the [...]
Middleclass families to adopt a scrounger?
August 29th, 2011, No Comments
Here’s the latest ConDemned brainwave to force scroungers to work: get middleclass volunteers to sort out trouble families:
It began in December when the prime minister said: “All evidence suggests that it’s no use offering a range of different services to these families – the help they’re offered just falls through the cracks of their chaotic [...]
Here’s your fucking welfare reform
July 11th, 2011, No Comments
So you’re somebody with a disability who thanks to a bit of support from the government is still able to work and keep yourself going; you’re not doing brilliantly well perhaps but you cope. And then they take that support away:
So imagine my devastation when my government, took away my car and told me, you [...]
Weird drugs, bizarre sexual practises or something more sinister?
June 27th, 2011, No Comments
David Cameron’s constituency chairman dead at Glasto:
David Cameron said he was “devastated” after the chairman of his local constituency was found dead in a portable toilet in a backstage area at the Glastonbury festival.
Police said they did not yet know the cause of death of Christopher Shale, a 56-year old businessman, although friends said there [...]
March 26
March 27th, 2011, No Comments
Lenny gets to the heart of things with what conclusion should be drawn from the march:
It was something that I haven’t really seen en masse before. It was something that some people had written off. They said was a bit old hat, doomed to a slow, dwindling death, if it even really existed. It was [...]
Big Society: sold off
February 8th, 2011, No Comments
The Tory flagship council sells off the Big Society:
David Cameron’s Big Society plans came under attack again today after a Tory council agreed to sell off nine buildings that house charities.
At a tense meeting last night Hammersmith and Fulham decided to press ahead with the sale which it claims will raise up to £20 million to [...]
The first cut is the deepest
January 13th, 2011, No Comments
How the cuts in the grants central government provides local councils will be divided over London. It’s the poorest countries (deep red and mainly in the centre on the map above) who get the biggest cuts, the richer outer boroughs being hit relatively lightly. From the Londonist, which also has the raw data for the [...]
Students get militant as they should
November 11th, 2010, No Comments
Good to see some militancy getting going finally. Hopefully that will be a nice little bill for the Tory scumbags, though it’s more likely they’ll find a way to let the taxpaper foot the bill. But this is what you can expect if you fuck with people’s lives, some fightback. If you want to saddle [...]
Social cleansing (1)
October 30th, 2010, No Comments
How the cap in housing benefits will work out, courtesy of Comment is Free commenter Texaspete82 (original here:
There are four parts to the HB reforms which will all be implemented by October 2011. The key reform – which affects 750,000 people and raises half a billion pounds per year – is the first of these.
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