Comments for Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate https://leftfootforward.org/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:37:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 Comment on German ministers troll Johnson over false contact tracing claim by Government’s ‘New Deal’ fund is less than was spent upgrading one London tube station | Left Foot Forward https://leftfootforward.org/2020/06/german-ministers-troll-johnson-over-false-contact-tracing-claim/#comment-1011601 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:37:56 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=143393#comment-1011601 […] Buckinghamshire gets enough for one failed covid contact tracing app. […]

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]]> Comment on REVEALED: Care staff explain how they’re terrified at work over lack of PPE by Still no tests for 685,000 "bottom of the pile" home carers | Left Foot Forward https://leftfootforward.org/2020/04/revealed-care-staff-explain-how-theyre-terrified-at-work/#comment-1011111 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:39:55 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=142350#comment-1011111 […] Polling has shown that, at the height of the pandemic, three-quarters of care workers thought colleagues would die because of the virus. […]

]]> Comment on Housing minister accused of being soft on rogue landlords is married to a landlord himself by Council housing sell-off scandal continues | Govt Newspeak https://leftfootforward.org/2020/01/housing-minister-accused-of-being-soft-on-rogue-landlords-is-married-to-a-landlord-himself/comment-page-2/#comment-1011041 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:53:03 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=140761#comment-1011041 […] Housing minister accused of being soft on rogue landlords is married to a landlord himself […]

]]> Comment on 15 key bits of the UN poverty report which has made the government so angry by Secretively-funded think tank takes credit for abolition of aid ministry | Left Foot Forward https://leftfootforward.org/2019/06/15-key-bits-of-the-un-poverty-report-which-has-made-the-government-so-angry/#comment-1010927 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:45:03 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=136717#comment-1010927 […] June 2019, a United Nations rapporteur said welfare changes seemed to have “intentionally targeted” women and that benefit […]

]]> Comment on Trade Bill threatens our NHS and crushes scrutiny, say campaigners by It's time to stop kidding ourselves: we don't live in a democracy | Left Foot Forward https://leftfootforward.org/2020/05/trade-bill-threatens-our-nhs-and-crushes-scrutiny-say-campaigners/#comment-1010647 Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:41:56 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=142751#comment-1010647 […] Bill, which has now reached the committee stage in the House of Commons, makes no provision for parliamentary scrutiny of any post-Brexit deals. Parliament has no legal right under this bill to debate or vote on a […]

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]]> Comment on Prof Prem Sikka: The corporate bailout bill will hurt workers and pensioners by Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back | Left Foot Forward https://leftfootforward.org/2020/06/prof-prem-sikka-the-corporate-bailout-bill-will-hurt-workers-and-pensioners/#comment-1010276 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:38:46 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=142977#comment-1010276 […] than checking the above practices, the government is facilitating them. On 3rd June the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill was rushed through the House of Commons, with minimal […]

]]> Comment on Austerity has left the UK more vulnerable to the Coronavirus pandemic by Lying Cu*ts, revisited | Observaterry https://leftfootforward.org/2020/03/austerity-has-left-the-uk-more-vulnerable-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic/#comment-1009903 Mon, 25 May 2020 18:36:49 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=141796#comment-1009903 […] 2010, the UK’s Conservative governments spent 10 years defunding the NHS. By defunding it, they try to break it; by breaking it, they can claim “it doesn’t […]

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