Five urgent policies dwarfed by ‘partygate’ chaos
Preoccupied with self-inflicted ‘bring your own booze’ garden parties and ‘cheese and wine’ controversies, political agenda the country desperately needs is being starved of attention.
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Wera Hobhouse MP: Renewables is the answer to the gas crisis, not gas!
‘If we want to limit global temperature increases to 1.5C, we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. This means our power will come mainly from renewables’
Calls for Treasury to make immediate cash payments to ease cost-of living crisis
‘The government cannot stand by and allow the rising cost of living to knock people off their feet,’ says the JRF, amid demands for the chancellor to hand out cash payments to help struggling families.
Tension escalates in Bury over Wakeford’s defection as Labour defends no by-election
Another car crash week for the PM saw Bury South MP Christian Wakeford defect from the Conservatives to Labour, leading to calls for a by-election.
From crisis to catastrophe: Why the cost of living crisis will soon overshadow the pandemic
‘The biggest sticking point for Wales is that we do not control all the economic levers’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, January 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
MPs face pressure to scrap annual pay rise as cost-of-living crisis worsens
MPs are under fire for taking another significant pay rise at a time when thousands are hit with rocketing bills and higher National Insurance costs.
Prof Prem Sikka: Here’s what the government needs to do to tackle the energy bill crisis
‘Governments which have handed £895bn of quantitative easing to speculators can also create money to help hard pressed households’.
Prof Prem Sikka: Income and wealth need to be redistributed and public services rejuvenated
‘The neoliberal economic policies have increased social tensions but have failed to energise the economy. They have impoverished people and turned town centres into economic deserts.’
Half of UK families are £110 worse off a year since the 2019 General Election
300,000 more families are living in poverty now than in 2019, highlighting once more how Tory claims of ‘levelling up’ are just rhetoric.