Privateer Virgin Care has successfully sued the NHS because it was not awarded a contract to provide children’s health services in Surrey. Unite said the news was further evidence of the…Read more…
‘Good time’ Chancellor’s ‘bleak’ budget
Philip Hammond attempted to mask the Tories’ dismal economic record and lack of direction with jokes during his outline of the Budget today (November 22), even as he admitted official growth…Read more…
Tory failure continues
Certain phrases enter the political lexicon. Unemployment is a price worth paying – Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont. In office but not in power that too was Norman Lamont following his sacking…Read more…
Not ‘game changer’ we need
Today’s (November 22) budget is far from the ‘game-changer’ the country needs and will do little to ease the biggest squeeze in living standards the country has ever seen, Unite warned. …Read more…
Enough is enough, Hammond
Gaffe-prone chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged to give public sector workers, battered by pay austerity since 2010, a generous pay rise in Wednesday’s budget. “Since the Tories came to…Read more…
Hammond’s choice
Driverless cars are on Philip Hammond’s mind. In tomorrow’s budget the Chancellor will announce changes designed to make testing the new technology easier on British roads. Perhaps he…Read more…
“It’s the 21st century: homes should not be unfit for human habitation”
An excellent post copied from Labour Housing Group “Redbrick” while photo (and list) from “AnotherAngryVoice”.
I get to speak at meetings a fair bit, normally Labour Party or tenant campaign meetings around the place. Recently I’ve taken to asking audiences if it is possible for a landlord to let…Read more…
Will this govt please leave the stage?
Buffoonery and horseplay … crude characterisation and ludicrously improbable situations. Does the definition of “farce” put you in mind of anything? But the farce that is this Tory…Read more…
What’s the rush?
The Tories’ Brexit trade bill has sparked fury across the labour movement, with union figures saying it would endanger thousands of skilled jobs and allow ministers to circumnavigate parliament and…Read more…
Trouble in Paradise?
An explosive data leak – one of the largest of its kind, containing more than 13m documents – showed the extent of tax avoidance among the world’s elite, including powerful and influential people in…Read more…
Disenfranchised
Every time a group of people is disenfranchised, the arguments justifying it are often the same – that they are too immature to vote, that they are politically ill-informed, that they themselves…Read more…
‘What a mess’
The incompetence of this Tory government is so palpable it is almost embarrassing. It’s an incompetence compounded by a heartlessness to those least able to resist. Chaos at the heart of the…Read more…
Commit to defence call
Unite today (November 2) called on the new defence secretary Gavin Williamson to reverse the ‘hollowing out’ of Britain’s sovereign defence capability and spend the UK’s defence budget to support…Read more…
Brexit secrets?
The government is refusing to release 58 secret Brexit impact studies in order to obstruct Parliament and hide the damage its “shambolic” handling of Brexit could cause the country, Unite has said….Read more…
Fighting for defence
Today (October 25) Unite BAe reps from all over the country came to Parliament to urge MPs to spend UK tax payers’ money on UK defence work. View and share our film below …Read more…
Credit where it’s due
In a symbolic victory against the government’s cruel and botched rollout of Universal Credit (UC) – which has seen thousands of families fall through the cracks, facing eviction and hunger as their…Read more…
Empty promises
Unite accused the government of making empty promises over increasing the number of health visitors after shock figures released by the Labour party on Tuesday (October 17) showed a major fall in…Read more…
Brexit no deal now ‘real threat’
Chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed the Brexit negotiations are moving at a snail’s pace that may result in the UK crashing out of the EU, in revealing evidence to the Treasury committee yesterday…Read more…
Deal or no deal?
Unite savaged the Tories for bungling the Brexit negotiations yesterday (October 9), after the Prime Minister admitted the government is planning for a damaging “no deal” exit. Labour leader…Read more…
‘Long way short’
Theresa May’s promise to build “a new generation of council houses” during her speech to the Tory conference yesterday (October 4) typically sounded better than it is. May’s pledge of an extra…Read more…