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Ministers should be helping the millions struggling with rising bills, not allowing their wealthy pals to feather their nests further
The article Swelling bankers’ pay packets won’t help people struggling with bills first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Ministers should be helping the millions struggling with rising bills, not allowing their wealthy pals to feather their nests further
The article Swelling bankers’ pay packets won’t help people struggling with bills first appeared on the UNISON National site.
New chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget, announced today (September 23) was widely slammed as a handout for the wealthy amid a slew of unfunded tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the already well-off. Following a long-discredited ideology of ‘trickle down’ economics, Kwarteng announced a £45bn tax giveaway to the wealthiest and big businesses. Commenting on the announcements, […]
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Unite has slammed the government for reportedly considering lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses, after the plan was leaked to the Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday (September 14) night. The FT reported that chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, himself a former financial analyst for investment banks, is seeking to scrap the cap on bonuses — first […]
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There are over three million EU citizens living and working in the UK who are concerned about their future right to remain in the UK. Many Brits currently living and working in the rest of the EU have the same concerns about their own future. Organisat…Read more…
On Monday, Finance Ministers from EU member states will meet for the first time since French President Francois Hollande instructed his Finance minister to stop obstructing the Austro-German push for a broad-based financial transactions tax (FTT) , and…Read more…
This is so, so true. There are a number of versions of this anecdote and this is one of best I have seen.
Hat tip Cleveland Watkiss via Facebook “The System In A Nut-shell.#2014”. Read more…