Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
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647,000 festive workers get no statutory sick pay, TUC warns
The UK also has the least generous statutory sick pay in Europe, worth just £96.35 per week
The government’s plan to ban single-use plastics is too little too late
‘Over the last 20 years we’ve produced more plastic than in the whole of the last century.’
The Government is failing unaccompanied child refugees
‘When unaccompanied children arrive on our shores to seek asylum, they are vulnerable and need our support.’
Dominic Raab ruthlessly mocked for bizarre claim that police ‘don’t investigate crimes a year after they’ve been committed’
‘Raab seemingly thinks he’s the justice secretary in Minority Report where only future crimes are of interest.’
Labour urges government to come clean over alleged hidden disability benefit cut
Anneliese Dodds highlighted a £70m cut to disability benefits on International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
‘Epic karma’: Plug pulled on Nigel Farage’s anti-cancel culture conference
It has been suggested the right-wing ‘Counter Conference’ was cancelled due to lack of support.
GB News platforms ‘misleading research about vaccines’ which is watched more than 2 million times
The clip in which the research was cited, containing serious flaws, has been viewed more than 2 million times.
Prof Prem Sikka: Why the privatisation of the UK energy market has been a disaster
‘One of the aims of privatisation was to separate production and retailing of energy but that is not how it turned out.’
Tory MP slammed after saying ‘voters have a right to elect a misogynist or racist’
The comments were made by Sir Desmond Swayne