Axing EMA is not a tough choice – it’s a stupid one
It’s not the tough choices that need to be evaded, it’s the stupid ones – and axing Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) falls right into that category.
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Legal aid cuts will decimate advice services for the most vulnerable
Will Horwitz reports on the increase in opposition to the government’s cuts to legal aid.
Budget cuts are deeper than Cameron would have you believe
David Cameron’s statement that spending would return to 2006 levels once the budget cuts are over obscure the real contraction in public service spending.
How the ‘jilted generation’ is paying for coalition’s cuts
More than 2,000 young people from across the country, including from the Prime Minister’s own constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire, have signed a letter to David Cameron to be published today, calling for the government to think again on its planned cuts to youth provision and support.
Charities urge rethink on DLA mobility allowance cuts
Charities have urged a rethink On DLA mobility allowance cuts which would affect 80,000 disabled people, writes Sarah Ismail.
Coalition’s cuts draw a dividing line across Britain
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis on why we are not all in this together, on how the Nick Clegg/David Cameron cuts are hitting the poorest hardest.
Left has a difficult job to create an alternative but is winning the argument
The overwhelming consensus among panellists and delegates at today’s Netroots conference is that the Left is winning many of the debates about spending cuts.
Networks can be deliberative, accountable and consensual in decision making
Aaron Peters writes about open source consensus, and explains how networks can be deliberative, accountable and consensual in decision making and acting.
A progessive agenda for Wales in 2011
John Griffiths, Labour Member for Newport East, Counsel General & legislative programme leader, sets out the challenges which lie ahead for the Welsh Assembly.
Pay freeze chill reaches Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland’s draft budget will seek to address the £4 billion of cuts to be imposed following the Comprehensive Spending Review, reports Ed Jacobs.