Lansley’s “weasel words” hide coalition’s true intentions for NHS
The Coalition is trying to hide its big idea for health – the privitisation of commissioning and further use of private sector providers in the NHS. Why not be honest?
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Firefighters’ strikes: Tory Brian Coleman “addicted to conflict”
Green London Assembly Member Darren Johnson has criticised Conservative Fire Authority Chairman Brian Coleman for not wanting a settlement with London firemen.
No2AV campaign distances itself from TaxPayers’ Alliance – or does it?
The gaffe-prone No2AV campaign appears to be trying to decontaminate its brand by axing Matthew Elliott as director and installing 2010 Tory PPC Charlotte Vere.
Clegg’s latest lie: UK was on verge of a “sovereign debt crisis”
This morning the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg repeated the now discredited claim that when the coalition formed Britain was “on the edge of bankruptcy”.
Clegg still trying to redefine ‘progressive’
Nick Clegg is still trying to claim the tuition fees u-turn is a “progressive” move, even as fees look set to triple next year, writes UCU gen sec Sally Hunt.
No2AV campaign start 2011 with another gaffe
UPDATE 14.23: It turns out that the Barry Sheerman gaffe reported earlier today was the No2AV campaign’s second mistake of the year. The original list of “114 Labour MPs” included Alun Michael, Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth andtest
Another Tory broken promise on health
Low-paid health workers including nurses look set to lose jobs or pay. The move would break one of two promises made by David Cameron and George Osborne.
Clegg faces lose-lose situation over Forgemasters
Nick Clegg has some tough decisions to make, both on the national stage and a lot closer to home, and faces a lose-lose situation over Sheffield Forgemasters.
Pickles’s meddle and populism bill
Jessica Studdert, political adviser to the Labour group at the Local Govt Assoc, examines Eric Pickles’s meddling in the very localism he claims to champion.
Pickles using smoke and mirrors to hide scale of cuts to councils
Shadow communities minister Barbara Keeley argues Eric Pickles is hiding the true scale of the cuts to councils, which hit the most deprived areas the hardest.