Former Labour business secretary also says that unions should stop threatening strikes and that people need to ‘face reality’ … Continue reading
Disability issues in the news from the Black Triangle.
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Milliband joins the right-wing consensus
Labour leader reflects Blair and Thatcher’s legacy with his latest welfare proposals, says Tom Fox Following the tedious return to
Dignity in life, dignity in death
It’s not easy watching a man commit suicide on camera. The public uproar over the BBC documentary Choosing To Die, in
Controversial reforms will also cut benefit for 450,000 disabled tenants in social housing, according to leading charity … Continue reading
Treasury backtracks on Danny Alexander’s pension reform plan
Union backlash leaves reforms in disarray as Treasury says Alexander’s speech did not contain ‘concrete policies’ Government policy on reform
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A protracted struggle between the government and public sector unions would be highly risky for both of them … Continue reading
Revealed: the homelessness epidemic that threatens Scottish families
EXCLUSIVE REPORT BY JASPER HAMILL 19 Jun 201 ONE in 10 working Scottish households is currently living under the threat
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Wall Of Solidarity
The Black Triangle Wall Of Solidarity There Is An Alternative .PDF A true ‘mench’ and brother of the grassroots
Evan Harris predicts another MP rebellion, claiming the Tories want to bring in ‘privatisation through another route’ … Continue reading
The possibility of strikes in the public sector has seen the old tropes of left and right re-emerge with stunning speed and force … Continue reading
The NUT/ATL strike votes open the way to a wide range of public sector workers challenging the government’s austerity measures … Continue reading
Davies’s remarks are a much needed wake-up call; discrimination is alive and well
By Jos Bell Yes, Philip Davies is ignorant, ill informed and a disgrace to the institution of Parliament. This is the man who told me
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Treasury chief secretary accused of pre-empting talks by confirming changes to schemes for public sector workers … Continue reading
A Conservative MP’s demeaning idea that disabled people be paid less than the minimum wage encourages harmful attitudes … Continue reading
Pensions revolt won’t be like the miners – because we’ll win, says Unison general secretary Dave Prentis … Continue reading
Suspension of Facebook profiles before royal wedding
DECISION In accordance with the Act, this letter represents a Refusal Notice for this particular request under Section 17(4). These are
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Social security: Numbers speak louder than words
Slowly but surely the implications for real people of hacking £18bn out of the annual budget are beginning to dawn
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Welfare reforms ‘will mean poverty for people with cancer’
Government plans for welfare reform will plunge cancer patients into poverty simply “because they have not recovered quickly enough”,
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The sick left to perish by new UK benefit rules
Rumours are rife that there will be no appeal system when the new benefit rules are put in place. Currently
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Debbie Jolly: The Billion Pound Welfare Reform Fraud: fit for Work?
Would you consider a person who became spontaneously unconscious once every five weeks fit for work? Would you employ them?
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