a political choice to cut the winter fuel payment
Once again, George Osborne clone Rachel Reeves has been bandying about the Labour Party’s austerity agenda. Specifically, she told Sky News on Labour’s decision to scrap the winter fuel payment…
bills to rise as Labour cuts winter fuel payment
Things are about to get inordinately worse for millions of people this winter. That’s because, if the new Labour Party government cutting the winter fuel payment for the majority of…
parents take action against branded rip-offs
As families across the UK gear up for the upcoming school year, the financial strain of purchasing branded school uniforms looms large for many parents. School uniform: yearly stress With…
Energy companies pocket nearly £20bn in profits this week
Dubbed ‘Profiteers Week’, this week will see interim results from five energy companies who have already banked over £240 billion since the start of the energy crisis as campaigners call…
Sir Keir Starmer – no sorry
Keir Starmer has suspended seven of his own Labour Party MPs for rebelling over the two-child benefit cap. John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Imran Hussain, Apsana Begum,…
new benchmark needed for companies
A new benchmark – like the Living Wage Employer standard – is needed to enable businesses to tackle the scale and depth of in-work poverty, think tank the Social Market…
DWP benefit fraud in the spotlight once again
The now Labour-led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published its annual report. So predictably, it was prime opportunity for the right-wing hacks at the Times to punch down on…
Free School Meals For All rally heads to parliament
On Tuesday 23 July, campaigners, politicians, and trade unions gathered at parliament to call on the new Labour Party government to provide #FreeSchoolMealsForAll. You’d think, given the evidence, that giving…
Gordon Brown poverty-washing multibank pushed by Guardian
With the advent of a New-New neoliberal lovelorn Labour Party government, what better time is there for a big corporate media politician rehabilitation parade? This time, it was head of…
Labour just abandoned the poorest people in the king’s speech
The king’s speech on Wednesday 17 July was nothing if a direct play to the Labour Party’s now-target audience: the middle classes and middle England. Because within the 39 bills,…
DWP Universal Credit claimants targeted by MSM clickbait
Corporate media outlet BirminghamLive has published another misleading article on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit. In particular, the site has played into benefit claimant concerns as…
The country is crumbling, but don’t worry the King has donned his jewels to speak to the peasants
The king’s speech from Charlie outlined the Labour Party’s first programme for government in 15 years. Wearing the diamond-studded Imperial State Crown, his Admiral of the Fleet uniform and the…