Big businesses are getting bailouts. Why not our Covid-hit councils?
While tax-dodgers are handed public funds, councils are being left to sink.
austerity
“Austerity kills people” – epidemiologist warns cuts could lead to second covid wave
He’s said austerity killed 40,000 people a year.
Prof Prem Sikka: We must rebuild not tax and cut
The Treasury are proposing more austerity. That must not happen.
Is this how NHS staff are rewarded? Outrage as Tories consider public sector pay freeze
Boris Johnson promised there’d be no more austerity. Was he telling the truth?
What a post-coronavirus society must look like
We must not forget the pillars that have allowed our society to function after this pandemic is over.
The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the impact of public health austerity
Public health funding has been cut by £1 billion since 2014.
Increase spending to boost worker productivity, says report
Reversing austerity and raising the minimum wage are two ways to fix the producivity crisis, the report said.
IPPR report calls for investment in care, health, skills and income security
The report called for spending to reach European levels, funded by taxes on high and middle-income earners
Ten years of austerity will leave behind a legacy of homelessness
“What’s troubling is that the likely future Prime Minister will probably care even less about social housing than his two predecessors.”
Refugee Week: The government is engaged in shameful hypocrisy over ‘integration’
Funding for English courses has been halved in a decade…while ministers lecture migrants and refugees about ‘integration’.
