There’s nothing Labour about unemployment – but compulsory work is only worthwhile if it’s good work
The compulsory job scheme plans announced by Ed Balls this morning have received a thoroughly unsurprising response. The…
Jobs
The North is suffering – how do we release the potential of the Northern economy?
Dalton Philips, the boss of supermarket chain Morrisons, has said that the double dip recession has hit the…
Cabinet member suggests unemployment of 2.6million is “good news”
Energy Secretary Ed Davey is under fire after implying that unemployment of 2.6million is “good news”. To make…
William Hague: A pale imitation of Norman Tebbit
Wouldn’t it be great to have Lord Tebbit back in the Cabinet? Gone are the days when a…
The Omnishambles continues – this time it’s jobs
When the Regional Growth Fund was unveiled Nick Clegg claimed that it would create 500,000 new jobs. Yet a…
Was that it?
Was that it? Two years since the last Queen’s Speech, and all the government could muster was a…
We need a budget for jobs and public services
If the Chancellor was acting in the national interests with this year’s budget the issues that would be…
In it together? You’re havin a laugh…
Today saw two great old titans of British football face off in one of the FA Cup Quarter…
Complacency does not create jobs, only unemployment
It is a disgrace that Clegg and Cameron can describe this week’s employment figures as an improvement, when…
Remploy: Again, disabled people are told they are “not viable”
Yesterday, after months and months of uncertainty, the Government announced that they would close 36 of its 54…
