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UKIP split on Welsh devolution
Splits have emerged within the UK Independence Party over the basic question of whether there should be a Welsh Assembly.
The Immigration Bill does little to solve the real housing issues
This week the government launched a consultation into their proposal to require private landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants.
When the royal baby is born will any politician dare to be a modern Keir Hardie?
Soon William and Kate will have a baby and there will then be a ritual outpouring from the political class united in its uncritical adulation for the institution of royalty.
This week’s most read: UKIP and the far-right, Ramadan, and pay rises for MPs
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Misleading Taxpayers’ Alliance claims about green energy costs
Yesterday it was claimed in both the Mail and the Telegraph that energy prices were likely to increase by almost a third to £1,900 by the end of the decade.
The government needs to make social care access easier for those who need it, not harder
On twitter yesterday Ivan White wrote: “Softening us up for NHS charges – first make foreigners pay, then maybe rich pensioners, the obese and smokers….everyone in due course.” Scary to think that this might be the way things are edging.test
In defence of the Histadrut: a response to Gary Spedding
Every last thing about Gary Spedding’s argument in favour of boycotting Histadrut, Israel’s free and democratic Israeli trade union movement, is wrong. Speeding does not so much put a left foot forward as trip over his own feet.
For the credibility of the party Labour is right to take strong action over Falkirk
It’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks that the Conservative Party is looking for anything it can with which to smear the Labour Party link with the trade unions.
One thing in Egypt is sure – it will not be the secular liberals taking power
When President Mubarak was forced from power in February 2011, many of the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square thought that the future of Egypt looked bright for the kind of Western secular liberal values many of them had championed.
Drilling in London? No thanks Boris!
Opposition to fracking and the negative impact it can have on the environment has been well reported. But that’s never stopped Mayor of London Boris Johnson before.