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This is a battle that we can win
Last week, Hilary Benn MP, Labour’s Shadow Local Government Secretary, made an attack on the imposition of the Bedroom Tax in which he said ‘It’s hard to imagine that Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors would want to stand silently by … Continue reading
‘The foothills of reform’
A quick look in the Telegraph today shows the direction of travel that the Tories want to go in. In an editorial entitled ‘We have only reached the foothills of reform’ the Telegraph says that ‘Although today is a good … Continue reading
Posted in Austerity, Resistance, The Left
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Unfortunately this isn’t an April Fools joke
And so it begins. From today (1 April) the Government will begin do to things; it will give a tax cut averaging £100,000 to each of the 13,000 people in Britain earning over £1m a year and it will … Continue reading
Posted in Cuts, Democracy, Labour Party, Resistance
Tagged Bedroom Tax, Disability Living Allowance, Labour
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The Times They (may be) a’Changin
Over the past couple of weeks, three things have served to lift the gloom of an apparently endless winter in Tory Britain. First has been the first stirrings of what may well become a real wave of popular revulsion at … Continue reading
Posted in Green Party, Left regroupment, Politics, The Left
Tagged brighton green, Caroline Lucas, Green, Green Left, Ken Loach, Left Unity, Natalie Bennett, Will Duckworth
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Know Thy Enemy
I first came across Christopher Logue when, in 1963, a friend played me Red Bird, an EP (an extended play 7 inch record – a format now known only to pensioners and vinyl geeks) of Logue reading some of his … Continue reading
Squeezing blood from stones – Tory style
Under the current system, people on low or no incomes have up to 100% of their council tax paid by their local council through Council Tax benefit. However, in just five weeks time, at the beginning of April, the current … Continue reading
Posted in Austerity, Cuts, Green Party, Labour Party, Politics, Resistance
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The Buddha’s parable of the burning house – Brecht
Guatama the Buddha taught The doctrine of greed’s wheel to which we are bound, and advised That we should shed all craving and thus Undesiring enter the nothingness that he called Nirvana. What is it like, this nothingness, Master? Every … Continue reading
Can’t pay? Don’t pay
Obviously, we all know that this is Government is absolutely vile. But of all the vile things that they have done, or are planning to do (or at least, that they currently admit they are planning) the imposition of the … Continue reading
Posted in Austerity, Cuts, Democracy, Green Party, Labour Party, Resistance
Tagged Bedroom Tax, Council Tax, Disability, Government, Housing Benefit, Universal Credit
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