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.
Inequality
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.
Prof Prem Sikka: Why the privatisation of the UK energy market has been a disaster
‘One of the aims of privatisation was to separate production and retailing of energy but that is not how it turned out.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, November 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Prof Prem Sikka: Government is handing billions to speculators but squeezing pensioners and the poor
‘Compare the inhuman treatment of pensioners and other vulnerable groups with welfare programme operated for the benefit of finance industry and speculators.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, November 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Diane Abbott MP: ‘Sunak is another Tory chancellor playing the role of Robin Hood in reverse’
‘The Resolution Foundation put it succinctly, ‘On taxes, by 2027 average households will be paying £3,000 more in taxes than when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Jon Trickett: A Wealth Tax is a bold policy but our times call for nothing less
‘In Britain we tax income rather than wealth. This no longer makes sense in our day and age, if it ever did’.
Jeremy Corbyn: We need radical change to fix our destructive political and economic system before it’s too late
‘Our crises of climate, inequality, the Covid 19 pandemic and democracy are all linked, and all require radical solutions that put people and planet before the interests of the multinational profiteers’