A sorry story about our public house heritage and the immoral actions of family brewers and public house companies in the UK and the slow process of justice.
The Canadian Government has taken backwards steps with regards to environmental protection and protecting the rights and welfare of the indigenous peoples of Canada.
Police urged to investigate fraud allegations against Osborne
Whilst our politicians and media keep persecuting the less unfortunate in our society. Our politicians themselves keep flaunting the law and enriching themselves at the expense of us. It was time there was a full and determined investigation of all our politicians. After our MPs, then Manchester City Councillors.
Police urged to investigate fraud allegations against Osborne.
The continuing sad story of the Britain returning to the ‘Dark Days’ of the Industrial Revolution, where workers found their wages continually cut. Plunging even working families into dire poverty, welcome to 21st Century Britain and the end of a National Health Service. What is also sad, despite Miliband’s rhetoric, is that Labour will not vote against the Benefits Bill. Ed Miliband to wage war on George Osborne’s welfare.
‘Senior Labour figures stopped short of confirming that Labour would vote against the cuts in the Commons in January. But it is understood that unless fundamental changes are made to the coming welfare uprating bill, Miliband will be prepared to give the order.
One senior Labour figure said there were still tensions inside the party, with a caucus of “new Labour” figures believing it will be politically suicidal to leave the party open to charges that it sides with “scroungers” and is in denial over the need to cut the benefits bill’.
Another journalist summed up the situation as Osborne’s war on the poor and the vile stupidity of his workers-vs-shirkers narrative. Unfortunately as the Guardian hints at, there are millionaire members in the Labour Party who believe in this same rhetoric. That is why people need to realise they have to vote, to rid us of these two obscene political parties.
I’ve spent the last few days looking through the oral testimony given to the Commons Health Select Committee on 13 November, as well as through the lengthy written testimony given to the committee ahead of the hearing by various organisations, on ‘public expenditure’ – basically the state of NHS finances and the progress toward achieving the ‘Nicholson Challenge’ of £20 billion in savings over the period from 2011-2015.
I was initially drawn to this evidentiary session because, among the witnesses, was Tony Spotswood – the CEO of Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Trust. Spotswood, as revealed in an email exchange I was able to publish for the first time recently, discussed a ‘coup’ plan to bring down the ‘NHS Employers’ organisation (NHSE) with Chris Bown, CEO of the neighbouring Poole NHS Trust.
NHSE is responsible for national negotiations with unions on the pay and conditions of the UK’s 1.7 million…
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Sarah Lyall – 4 reasons why the benefit freeze makes no sense | the new economics foundation
An article about today’s Autumn budget, which is another attack on the vulnerable in our society. It is also a budget which promotes more gas-powered power stations, road building, increased dependence on fossil fuels and advocates the exploitation of shale-gas (fracking). All of which will have a further detrimental impact on the vulnerable and help accelerate climate change.
Sarah Lyall – 4 reasons why the benefit freeze makes no sense | the new economics foundation.
How Islington has ‘greened’ it’s estates, with an opposite approach to that of Manchester City Council, who have felled hundreds of trees and concreted over green spaces.
This is a guest post by Liz Kessler who developed a strategy to improve the EC1 area of south Islington, London.
This project features as one of the inspirational examples in Green Alliance’s new report Towering ambitions, which will be launched at the Greening towers event tomorrow.
Since 2004 much of the EC1 area of south Islington, London, has been changed from a place that felt bleak, unsafe and colourless into one that feels safer, more attractive, neighbourly and vibrant.
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