Demonstration Outside Brighton Hospital in Protest at the Lack of Personal Protective Equipment and Intimidation of Hospital Workers by the Management

Demonstration Outside Brighton Hospital in Protest at the Lack of Personal Protective Equipment and Intimidation of Hospital Workers by the Management The GMB says members working at  the Sussex County Hospital were told to get back to work after expressing concerns about a lack of PPE Yesterday was Workers’ Memorial Day although you would be forgiven for…

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Sam Matthews, Labour’s Witch-finder General has found a new victim – disabled member Marianne Tellier

Marianne’s offence? Comparing the Tories policy towards the disabled under Ian Duncan Smith with the Nazis Letter from Sam Matthews suspending Marianne Tellier Page 1 of Solicitor’s letter to Sam Matthews On 29th March 2018 Sam Matthews, whose title is Head of Disputes, wrote to Marianne Tellier, an autistic member of the Labour Party, to…

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IDS – The Tory’s version of Scrooge

The Contemptible Ian Duncan Smith Is there anyone more despicable than Ian Duncan Smith? He puts Scrooge to shame for the latter’s generosity. This is a man who spent £10,000 of public money having his portrait painted. After being sacked as Tory leader he went on a mission of salvation to Easterhouse in Glasgow where…

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Mr Gradgrind and Scrooge Return with a Vengeance

Blaming the poor for poverty Do you remember Ian Duncan Smith and hi The idiot who the Tories put in charge of poor bashing IDS in the days when he was ‘concerned’ about poverty  s Centre for Social Justice?  After Tory MPs passed a vote of no confidence in him and he was forced into resigning…

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New Labour Supports Benefit Attacks and ‘Welfare Reforms’

Catt Reilly outside the Royal Courts of Justice On 12th February 2013, a student Cat Reilly and a lorry driver Jamieson Wilson successfully took the government to court.  They argued that the benefit sanctions as being implemented were unlawful.  The Court of Appeal agreed.  Highly unusually, the Government immediately passed legislation of a retrospective nature,…

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Owen Jones Breaks the Establishment Consensus Over Gaza

For Once Question Time Allows in a Little Light I didn’t watch Question Time but for once the establishment consensus was broken on Gaza as Owen Jones, the young journalist from the Independent, shattered the myth that Israel was ‘retaliating’ to Hamas rockets. Charles Kennedy, the ex-Lib Dem leader who was forced to resign for…

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