Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Left Foot Forward
‘Putin go f*** yourself’: Squatters occupy mansion owned by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska
“You occupy Ukraine, we occupy you.”
Sajid Javid defends ‘economic relationship’ with Saudi Arabia after country executes 81 people in single day
“While it is to be welcomed that we don’t send money to Putin of course, would we want to deals with the Saudis, noting their human rights record?”
Half of UK children ‘will have to sacrifice essentials like food’ due to cost of living crisis, report warns
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says that 23.4 million people in the UK will be short by more than £8,500 a year for income needed to pay for essentials including food, heating and clothing by next month.
Boris Johnson warned that plans for new Royal Yacht Britannia could ‘badly backfire’
As people are forced to choose between heating and eating as the cost-of-living spirals, the PM will hail the £250m boat as a symbol of ‘Global Britain.’
What are the motives behind the timing of Farage’s new political campaign?
Is the launch of the anti-Net Zero group intended to be a distraction from Farage’s Putin links and sympathies, a desperate bid by the former UKIP leader for relevance – or a bit of both?
Why the Economic Crime Bill is unlikely to make a difference in stopping the flow of dirty money
‘The UK government has been forced to act on the flow of dirty money into property. The Bill is a token gesture and is unlikely to make a significant difference to the flow of dirty money into the UK property market.’
Nigel Farage ridiculed after complaining about government sanctioning Russian oligarchs
‘The Russian Embassy in London might as well pack up and go home. Farage is doing their job for them’
Unions slam Boris Johnson’s latest National Shipbuilding Strategy
Johnson has re-announced previous cash promised two years ago and failed to set out details for how vessels would be delivered.
PMQs: Johnson and Patel slammed for failure on Ukrainian refugees
“These numbers don’t lie – they tell a devastating truth. Does the Prime Minister find it acceptable that his Home Secretary has overseen one of the slowest, most bureaucratic and incompetent refugee responses in the whole of Europe?”