Green Politics

Reform’s road to ruin

There is so much wrong with today’s Reform report, ‘Road to Recovery’, it is truly hard to know where to start. It would take a full-length counter-report to rebut the vast array of mistakes, misinterpretations and missteps contained in ittest

Scotland will be hardest hit by the recession

Experts have warned that that Scotland is likely to be hit disproportionately by the impact the recession will have on the public sector. SNP criticisms of the report are based on including North Sea Oil revenues which PwC claim will “not protect jobs”.

Cameron’s empty support for steel

Last week, David Cameron finally woke up to the crisis that has hit UK Steel since January this year. But Michael Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steel union, asks what the support will mean.

Australia’s economy: same policy, 33% poll lead

A poll commissioned by The Australian newspaper puts Australia’s Labour Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, 33 per cent ahead of Liberal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull in terms of who is most capable of handling the country’s economy. Why has Labour’s sister party in Australia performed so well against its conservative opponents and what lessons does Britain have to learn from Kevin Rudd?

Fewer “young mums paying back 96 pence” than under Conservatives

David Cameron spoke yesterday ‘marginal deduction rates,’ the amount given back to the state in lost benefits, lost tax credits, and paid taxes as a worker earns an extra pound. But this is not a new problem and the Labour government has more than halved the number of people facing these high marginal rates.

TaxPayers’ Alliance’s US scare tactics uncovered

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the right wing pressure group TaxPayers’ Alliance and a former adviser to Conservative Party parliamentarians, has been in the US in recent weeks helping his Republican friends to try and defeat Obama’s plans for atest