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10 right-wing myths about climate change and the floods
Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth debunks 10 of the most common right-wing myths about flooding and climate change.
Now the ‘new politics’ is dead, what is the point of the Lib Dems?
Here are some of the key pledges of Nick Clegg’s ‘new politics’ agenda which the party has dropped.
Scrapping housing benefit for under 25s will only feed youth homelessness
It is unlikely that scrapping housing benefit for under-25s will mean that claimants will go back to living with parents.
Never mind the 50p top rate: these five cuts really are a false economy
Five self-defeating cuts which are not only unfair, but fail on the coalition’s own criteria of deficit-reduction.
Government slammed for giving ‘false impression’ of flood investment
The government has been accused (£) by the head of the UK Statistics Authority of giving a misleading impression of how much it has invested in flood defence.
According to the IFS, people really are worse off under the Tories
Despite the sort of spin that we saw last Friday, people really are worse off under the Tories.