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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.
Food banks have become the norm. But poverty should never be normal.
The UK government should take responsibility for addressing the raging income inequalities and the broken benefits system which have pushed so many into poverty.