BA boss Willie Walsh criticises Osborne on cuts and lack of growth
BA Chief Willie Walsh (no friend of the labour movement) has criticised the government’s cuts agenda, and said…
Cuts
Painful spending choices will happen, even if a future Labour chancellor can avoid an outright cut in expenditure
P.G Wodehouse said ‘it is a good rule in life never to apologise’. As he delivered a grim…
An Open letter to fellow Labour MPs from John McDonnell
We’ve been sent the following letter which has been sent by John McDonnell to all Labour MPs, urging them…
The Government’s approach to Local Government is a tale of two nations
Like many other Councils Newcastle receives the majority of its money from Central Government. The Coalition has cut…
6191 Nursing jobs cut since May 2010
He said he wouldn’t cut the NHS – but he’s slashed over 6000 nursing jobs from the health…
Millions wasted on boundary changes that won’t happen could have paid for more than 500 nurses
The boundary commission revised changes to constituencies have been published today, even though Nick Clegg has said they…
Danny Alexander throws a strop with the SMF
An interesting exchange, as reported on the Social Market Foundation website: Ian Mulheirn: In June 2010, when the [fiscal…
Dear Boris, where exactly would you like single mums to live?
Conservative plans to scrap housing benefit support for under-25s may be a classic Conference clap-line against the feckless…
What Boris didn’t tell you in his speech today
As soon as Boris Johnson left the Tory conference stage in Birmingham today, Labour’s leader in the London…
Time travel does not yet exist. But the Tories are doing their best
This weekend, partly to escape the twin mountains of laundry and dishes that built up in my flat…
