Balls calls for growth now, and cuts later
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern looks at Ed Balls’s appearance on the Today Programme and looks ahead to his upcoming Labour party conference speech.
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The Lib Dems shouldn’t listen to Osborne’s dribble, they should switch to Plan B now
More gloom on the economy today: The IMF have downgraded UK growth by 0.6 per cent to 1.1 per cent in 2011, and from 2.3 per cent to 1.6 per cent for 2012.
Latest high street gloom shows urgent need for new planning system
Reports today that the national high street vacancy rate might stabilise at around 10% in the long term are further evidence of the need for a new planning system.
Four ways to prevent a repeat of the economic meltdown
To help prevent a repeat economic meltdown, we need greater economic democracy, participation, transparency, decentralisation and accountability.
As conference season approaches, economic reality begins to dawn for coalition
With party conference season around the corner, the reality that the economy may not grow as planned is beginning to dawn for the coalition parties.
Vindicated Balls gives absent Osborne an economics lesson
Small wonder George Osborne chose to hide last night rather than be grilled on Newsnight following yesterday’s disastrous unemployment figures, writes Shamik Das.
Will Osborne alter course? And how should Labour respond?
With George Osborne’s policies in disarray, Ed Miliband needs to now step in, present a different explanation and, most importantly, come up with a credible Plan B.
Without a Plan B, the record unemployment figures look set to get worse
Without a plan B, it seems likely all this month’s grim jobs stats and record bad figures are likely to be replaced by new ones, writes the TUC’s Richard Exell.
New figures show women’s employment prospects the worst for decades
With the coalition’s efforts to win back female voters in the news, today’s new employment stats couldn’t have come at a worse time, writes James Plunkett.
The euro lurches towards the abyss – but does the Left have a Plan B?
With the eurozone engulfed in a semi-permanent state of crisis, Ann Pettifor outlines five steps the global Left can take towards a Plan B.