On budget day this Wednesday (18 March), I and 16 other contributors are launching in the House of Commons our book What the Three Main Parties are not Telling You: A Radical Way out of Stagnation and Inequality as a counter-blast to Osborne’s demand for another 5 years of austerity. Mariana Mazzucato refutes the conventional […]
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What the 3 main parties aren’t telling you: a radical way out of austerity
Mar 16th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.
What’s driving Germany’s hardline stance on Greece?
Mar 2nd, 2015 by Tom Gill.By Juan Torres López* and translated from the original Spanish by Tom Gill The media and the centres of economic and political power in Europe try to make us believe that the difficulties in reaching agreement with Greece come from the demands and bad practices in this country and that it is the position of […]
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Members of Parliament, second jobs and the culture of entitlement
Feb 27th, 2015 by Jon Trickett.If ever for one second a doubt appears in your mind that the Tories aren’t the party of wealth and privilege, all you need to do is read the Tory speeches in the second jobs debate on Wednesday 25 February. In the meantime here is my speech from the debate: Jon Trickett (Hemsworth) (Lab): This has been […]
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Osborne thinks economy is a trump card, but it’s a joker not an ace
Feb 27th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Osborne boasts interminably about success with his ‘long term economic plan’, but even the slightest scrutiny of the evidence shows that his claims don’t remotely stand up. Labour should be eating him alive. 1. After the 6-7% collapse of output brought about by the financial crisis, output per head has grown by less than 2% […]
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Five questions from Costas Lapavitsas to Syriza’s leadership on their Euroland deal
Feb 25th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.This is a translation of a blog by Costas Lapavitsas who was Professor of Economics at London’s SOAS until he was elected as a Syriza MP this year. He is known as a Eurosceptic critic of the more Europhile stance of the Syriza leadership, though his criticisms are more reserved than those of Syriza’s 92-old […]
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On the Mega Brothel and what to do about prostitution
Feb 4th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.What to do about prostitution? To all intents and purposes it remains banned in England and Wales, though an individual sex worker can work out of a property at any one time. More than one and they fall foul of prohibitions against brothel keeping. The situation in Scotland is slightly different as the campaign to […]
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As Syriza win on an anti-austerity platform in Greece, Labour MPs seek a change in direction here
Jan 26th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.As Syriza wins a remarkable victory in Greece on a platform of ending austerity and greater state intervention in the economy, fifteen Labour MPs have today expressed concerns about elements of Labour’s policy agenda, and proposed a change of course in three key areas. They have issued a statement calling for an alternative to austerity, for public […]
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The on-demand economy is an even greater threat than zero hours contracts
Jan 26th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Much of the debate about the fast-growing on-demand economy has centred around Uber. Their drivers get paid only when they work and are responsible for their own pensions and health care. Risks borne by companies are being pushed back on to individuals, and this has huge implications for the organisation of work, the potential insecurity […]
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Tory jobs claims take a hammering
Jan 23rd, 2015 by Michael Meacher.The Tories’ biggest economic claims (there are only two of them) are that they generated a recovery (after 18 months it’s already fading) and that they created a million private sector jobs. The latter claim is now under fire from all sides. First, it has just been reported by the thinktank Centre for Cities that […]
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When will Labour start whacking Tories over their economic policy failures?
Jan 10th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.The Tories’ first election poster depicts a road wending its way through the countryside till far in the distance, with the motif below: continue with the Tory-led recovery of the economy which the Labour party wrecked. It’s a theme which will be repeated endlessly up till the election which Labour, astonishingly, has made no attempt […]
