Nigel Farage brutally mocked after trying to explain why Reform MPs walked out of PMQs
“Petulant hissy fit man having highlighted the very reason why he is unfit for office then plays on it to the crowd of paying gullibles.”
Reform’s growing list of policy U-turns
Reform has dropped its pledge to part-nationalise water and energy companies in its latest U-turn
Reform’s year in power in local government: A year of tax rises, cuts and defections
Nothing but broken promises, council tax rises and infighting among its councillors.
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Number of Tory MPs refuse to wear masks even after Sajid Javid’s plea to ‘set an example’
“I’m looking round the house today and I’m looking at my Conservative colleagues… I think there’s four out of fourteen wearing a facemask this morning.”
How a wealth tax could bring in more than £200bn in extra revenue to fund public services
‘The accumulation of wealth is largely ignored. It’s time for this to change.’
British Medical Association slams government for being ‘wilfully negligent’ for not enforcing Covid ‘Plan B’
‘The Westminster Government said it would enact ‘Plan B’ to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed; as doctors working on the frontline, we can categorically say that time is now.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Cleaning staff win campaign for £10 per hour wage at University of Sheffield
The University’s management have now signed an agreement with Unite representatives to confirm the decision to increase the workers’ pay from £9.52 to £10 an hour.
EXCLUSIVE: Majority of UK voters want a four-day working week, poll finds
60% of those asked were in favour of introducing a four-day working week in the UK, compared to 26% who opposed the move
Why government grants to replace gas boilers with heat pumps don’t go far enough
Although up to 25 million UK homes have gas boilers, the grants will fund just 90,000 pumps over three years
EXCLUSIVE: 60% of UK adults support bringing energy companies back into public ownership, poll finds
73% of Labour Party voters supported bringing energy companies back into public ownership, as did 60% of Conservative Party voters
What Labour needs to do to attract alienated working class voters
What the Labour Party need is a sufficient narrative which bestows upon working people not only material benefits, but also something more- a degree of recognition
Government told it must reveal the names of companies who were in ‘VIP lane’ for Covid contracts
The Information Commissioner has ordered the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to disclose the names of the 47 companies within 35 calendar days.