Tomorrow will mark the 82nd anniversary of the Kinder Scout trespass. Over eighty years ago working class people defied the police and landowners with a mass trespass in the Peak District in order to assert their right to roam. The protest led to five demonstrators being arrested and imprisoned. However, it also began the process that would see […]
Royal Mail fire sale costs taxpayer £1.4 billion
Apr 15th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.The Royal Mail served the nation for over 500 years; however a Government fire sale not only privatised this prize asset but also short changed the public. Last week, the National Audit Office (NAO) delivered a damning report showing that the Government’s rush to privatise the Royal Mail cost the taxpayer £1.4 billion.
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Britain needs a pay rise
Apr 4th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.We are now in the second week of the Fair Pay Fortnight which is raising awareness about Britain’s cost of living crisis. Upon taking office in 2010, the Coalition Government promised to “make work pay”. However, those in work have seen an assault on their living standards, with full time UK workers earning on average […]
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The violence in Venezuela is no popular uprising
Mar 5th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.What’s really behind the violence in Venezuela? Attempts to portray the violence as a people’s uprising for justice — a “Venezuelan spring” — don’t stand up to scrutiny. The election of Hugo Chavez delivered the huge increases in living standards, opportunities and the end to foreign dominance that the “Middle Eastern springs” had aimed to achieve. […]
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Safeguarding patients’ data
Feb 26th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.Last week the Government announced the delay to controversial plans to share patient data from GP records. The delay follows criticism that the public have not been properly informed about how their information will be used. Despite a publicity campaign that involved the distribution of information leaflets to 26 million households, fewer than one in […]
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Denying treatment to those most in need
Feb 19th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.The warnings that the Coalition Government’s NHS reforms would be bad for patients are sadly beginning to come to fruition. We have seen nursing job cuts, an A&E crisis, and hospital waiting times beginning to rise. There are terrible stories in the press of ambulances being delayed and police cars being used to transport people […]
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We need a banking system that helps small businesses, not hinders them
Jan 20th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.People in East Durham are facing the worst cost of living crisis in a generation. Prices are soaring, wages are falling, working people are £1,600 per year worse off and small businesses are struggling to access the finance they need to grow. Yet David Cameron continues to demonstrate how out of touch he is with the […]
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A&E Crisis
Jan 3rd, 2014 by Grahame Morris.Accident & Emergency units nationwide have endured an unprecedented summertime strain, that is set to continue this winter. Patients are facing growing waiting lists as A&E departments are overstretched, with patients paying the price. The Government’s response is to ask “what A&E crisis?” Labour recently called an Opposition Day Debate to demand the Tory-led Government […]
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Forty year wait for justice continues for Shrewsbury 24
Jan 1st, 2014 by Grahame Morris.I have recently joined the Shrewsbury 24 justice campaigners on the steps of Downing Street to hand a petition signed by over 100,000 people to the Prime Minister demanding the release of all official documents relating to the prosecution of the Shrewsbury 24 in 1973. Despite the passage of forty years the release of the […]
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Stop the growing divide in Britain
Dec 5th, 2013 by Grahame Morris.In 2010, the new Chancellor George Osborne promised “We were all in it together”, however, in the last three years we have seen the largest cuts targeted towards the North East. It is a line he was unlikely to repeat during today’s Autumn statement. Three years in and he has missed every economic target he […]
