Category Archives: Labour Party

Unfortunately this isn’t an April Fools joke

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Sean Thompson

  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 →

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Squeezing blood from stones – Tory style

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Sean Thompson

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 →

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Can’t pay? Don’t pay

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Sean Thompson

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 →

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My Clause IV moment

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Sean Thompson

To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and … Continue reading →

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