Farmers being hit by the Budget is a far-right children’s story
There has been a manure storm in the wake of Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget. It has come from far-right foghorns like Reform UK MPs an Jeremy Clarkson, over the idea…
Cannabis legalisation in Budget could have saved the NHS £5bn
In the Autumn Budget, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced plans to increase the day-to-day health budget by £22.6bn and a £31bn increase in the capital budget. Whether this is able to…
Reeves’ Budget did not go far enough at all
Labour Party chancellor Rachel Reeves announced at the Autumn Budget an increase in capital gains tax and has lowered the relief for investors on inheritance tax. On both measures, the…
DWP Universal Credit budget announcements half-baked nonsense
Unsurprisingly, the Labour Party government’s headline Autumn Budget plans to address the woeful state of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare system amounts to little more than tinkering…
Homelessness fund in budget is just £707 per household
In today’s Budget announcement, Rachel Reeves announced a measly £230m to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping: £230m to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping – #UKBudget — Dina Medland 💙 (@dinamedland)…
Budget reactions from centrists show their lack of care for anyone
Rachel Reeves’s much-anticipated Autumn Budget has arrived – and the Starmerroids are happy, which should be almost as big as any red flag you see on Married At First Sight.…
Pay growth under the Tories was the worst for over 100 years
The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures on employee earnings show that real average annual wage growth was just 0.3% from 2010 to 2024, compared to 1.5% from 1997 to…
Andy Burnham just showed up Labour government
Mayor Andy Burnham has slammed the brakes on Keir Starmer raising the bus fare cap in Greater Manchester. Of course, there’s no small amount of irony that it was a…
CND condemns Labour railroading of secretive US-UK nuclear deal
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) said it condemns the government’s outrageous railroading through parliament of the renewal of the US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA), the secretive treaty that underpins…
Jas Athwal MP exposed as the landlord of a failing children’s home
Jas Athwal, the already disgraced Labour Party MP for Ilford South is the landlord of a failing children’s home. An investigation by The Londoner has found that a building owned by Jas…
Corbyn slams David Lammy over arms sales to Israel
In parliament, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn demanded foreign secretary David Lammy end arms sales to Israel. Corbyn: Israel killing ‘the entire population of northern Gaza’ Corbyn, now elected…
Transform conference 2024 was the start of something bigger
After Transform’s recent conference, the Canary spoke to the party’s Anwarul Khan about some of the key issues the event addressed. In particular, he said that many left-wingers have been…