Welfare sanctions vote – the fallout continues
The fallout from Tuesday’s welfare sanctions vote – and the sizeable Labour rebellion – has rumbled on into…
Workfare
The welfare sanctions vote was Labour’s own Omnishambles
The significance of the welfare sanctions vote on Tuesday night has been (unsurprisingly) overlooked by the media in…
How do you solve a problem like Cait?
Cait Reilly, a 24 year old geology graduate from Birmingham being forced to work unpaid in Poundland for…
Workfare is pernicious – and Unite will boycott it
Cast your minds back to the pre-coalition days of 2010, when five Liberal Democrat MPs signed an early…
The dirty underbelly of the Jubilee pageant
So we now know that some of the rain-sodden stewards shivering as they surveyed the crowds gathered to…
A tale of two campaigns
This is a tale of two campaigns. One succeeded this week in the most spectacular victory over Tory…
Grayling put on the spot over Workfare
Why Labour should support work experience
As a local MP I regularly get letters from school pupils looking for work experience in my constituency…
Minister completely clueless on workfare
Not a great answer from Ed Vaizey on “workfare” last night, or as Emily Thornberry put it –…
How government subsidises big business
This week there was a twitter storm over Tesco offering a “job” for no wages. Tesco quickly moved…
