By John McArdle   THIS afternoon, at half past two, the Lords will reassemble in the chamber of the House of Lords to decide what action to take in response to the ConDem’s outright rejection of all seven amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill a fortnight ago.   The lobbying which we carried out  around […]
  Members of the shadow cabinet don’t trust their leader to cover their backs, says Dan Hodges.   BY DAN HODGES PUBLISHED 26 MARCH 2013 16:51 So much for unity. On 19 March, Ed Miliband experienced the most damaging parliamentary rebellion of his leadership so far, when 43 Labour MPs defied the whip and voted against the […]

Liam Byrne defends 'difficult' decision not to vote against government after resignation of shadow ministerial aide
  Update:  Labour welfare sanctions betrayal ~ Unite’s Len McCluskey threatens to cut purse strings Posted on March 22, 2013   Posted on March 20, 2013 by johnny void In a sad, but not unsurprising move, Labour yesterday abandoned any support for the poorest by allowing Iain Duncan Smith’s retrospective workfare legislation to pass into law virtually unimpeded. The nasty little bill […]
Many of us took great hope from the resistance that was shown in the House of Lords in recent weeks.  When the bill came back to the Lords on Tuesday, we were all hoping against hope that peers would take a stand and dig their heels in by insisting on sending their seven amendments back […]

There's no point blaming foreigners for the failure of our government's procurement policies. Profit is the real problem
Disabled protesters call for tax corruption allegations to be investigated, accuse UK Govt. of fostering tabloid media hate campaign and ‘Gestapo’ terror tactics using new DWP ‘Mobile Regional Taskforce’ made up of of ex-police, soldiers. Glasgow, Wednesday 3rd August 2011 By John McArdle POLICE were called to remove over 20 people from the Glasgow offices […]
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