EU or not EU? That is not the question

Since the EU referendum what has become horrifically clear to me is that Brexit is a Tory neoliberal wet dream. My own view had to undergo a sea change after the referendum. I voted leave because I am deeply uncomfortable with globalisation and neoliberalism in the EU, I feared, and still do, that globalisation will […]

Please can someone help this girl who is sleeping in a bin

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
https://twitter.com/UnityNewsUK/status/1076568803423801345 No one should ever have to live like this in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.  In 2013, Chris Skidmore, a Conservative MP, claimed that the impact of austerity and public service cuts wasn’t bad because people have not been left “lying dead in the streets”. He…

Jeremy Corbyn’s calm decency is the best antidote to the Conservatives’ perpetual politics of spite

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1075707682353504257 Yesterday I wrote two articles about the Conservative’s latest grotesque dead cat strategy. The second was concerning an email I got in the early hours from the Conservative Party’s Vice Chair, Helen Whatley, which gave the whole series of  ever-complicit mainstream media commentaries and events in parliament a…

The government prioritises corporate welfare at the expense of social welfare

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
The welfare ‘reforms’: public policies for private profit It’s widely assumed that public services are organized and delivered for the benefit of citizens. The reality, however, is very different. The more we scrutinise the role and function of different government departments and programmes, the clearer it becomes that they…

B R O K E–New Novel About Life Under Tory Britain– OUT NOW! (Plus an Update on Me)

Originally posted on Rupert Dreyfus:
My new novel about inequality in present day, miserable Tory Britain is now available here. Here’s the lowdown: After years of austerity, life for many people in the UK has been reduced to a treadmill of zero-hour contracts, mounting debts and a crippling anxiety as to where the money is…

The real reason the smaller parties are pressuring Labour to table a Motion of No Confidence in the Government

Originally posted on TheCritique Archives:
by Martin Odoni I see a lot of people on social media at the moment – especially supporters of the Scottish National Party – have still not figured out the real reason many of the smaller parties are pushing for Labour to call a Motion of No Confidence in the…

3,500 military troops on standby to ‘help’ police in event of a no-deal crisis, MPs told

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
Chief of Defence staff, Sir Nick Carter As many as 10,000 troops could be deployed on the streets of Britain in case of  chaos arising through a no deal Brexit chaos, a report says. Members of the military are ordered to help keep public order and bring medical supplies to hospitals,…

National debt? There is no national debt!

The following is probably not entirely accurate in places, that’s because I am still learning and looking behind the myths and bullshit. It’s not easy because the myths and bullshit rule.   One the many egregious crimes of George Osborne was to liken the national economy to a household economy. He knew it was a […]

Britain’s heart is broken

Image: © Guardian How do I know that Britain’s heart is broken? I know it because I am living it and living with the grief of it moment by moment. I know it because my own heart is broken. I know it because I see who and what broke it. I’ve seen it since 2010, […]

About the government’s claims on ‘real wages’ being ‘the highest since 2011’…

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
https://twitter.com/DominicRaab/status/1072744754096549888 Firstly, the graph does not show what Raab is claiming. The graph does show that after 8 years of Conservative government, real wages are lower than when the coalition took office. It shows an appalling and shameful record. After the global recession in 2008, consumer prices rose faster…