(a) What’s proposed The whole financial flow of state funding for all political parties that have representatives in the House of Commons (as a proxy for overall current national legitimacy, and to exclude the BNP and other nasties) should betest
Various figures in the Conservative Party are calling for Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, to be sacked for defending the Human Rights Act in the Crown Prosecution Service annual lecture. But this ad hominem attack raises the suspicion that it is no more than a means to cover for the inadequacy of Conservative policy.
During the eighties a great number of public assets were sold off, ostensibly with two aims in mind. The choice agenda and the share-owning democracy were given as reasons, although selling the state silver to fund tax cuts was thetest
The latest report by Right-wing think tank reform could lead to the dismantling of the welfare safety net for millions of Britons.
Jeremy Hunt, Tory culture spokesman, needs to answer the difficult questions and stop chasing headlines, writes Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the NUJ.
If you want to scare the hell out of people on immigration, big numbers will usually do the trick. So here’s a few to get you going. There are 6.6 million foreign-born people in the UK, up by 2.3 milliontest
1) Citizen MPs • Introduce proposals for a new class of MPs to be known as Citizen MPs. • Citizen MPs to be selected at random, as with jury service (except it would be harder to get out of becomingtest
Government should commit to ensuring that all Government jobs, and those with Government contractors, are offered on a part time or flexible basis. Kate Bell Left Foot Forward doesn’t have the backing of big business or billionaires. We rely ontest
1. Improved Finances: Half national debt by 2014 and get the public finances in order. 2. Improved Future: Industrial activism coupled with investment in skills, education and in work training to help people and companies through the recession. 3. Improvedtest
If it is true that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then I am delighted that the Conservatives appear to have adopted my suggestion to save up to £8 million by scrapping the London Assembly. I made the recommendationtest
