Just because he exchanges a few tweets with Labour’s leader, does that make him a friend of Labour? There was a time, when he did sound like a voice of reason to the Left of New Labour. He raised concerns about the level of private debt long before the credit crunch and he was the […]
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Clegg calls for wealth tax, but where’s Labour?
Aug 29th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Why is Clegg making the argument that the rich should contribute towards resolving the deficit in the interests of fairness, but not Labour? The super-rich, roughly the 1% of the working population (around 300,000 individuals) with incomes in excess of £3,000 a week rising to £92,000 a week for the average FTSE 100 chief executive and soaring […]
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The left needs to go on the offensive
Aug 1st, 2012 by Dominic Curran.I was recently pondering how, from the rule of Thatcher, the centre of British politics has been dragged rightwards as all political parties have accepted neoliberalism. One Nation Toryism lies all but dead; the LibDems seem to have succumbed almost totally to the “Orange Book” tendency; and then of course there was the rise of […]
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Tough on benefits,velvet soft on top pay & tax avoidance
Jun 26th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.So Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, cheers us up today by telling us that if a quarter of the annual tax receipts foregone through either avoidance, evasion or uncollected debt were actually levied, it could cut income tax by 2p in the £ (roughly £10bn). It would have been better if he’d said […]
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‘Energy is what I say it is’ said the Mad Hatter to Alice
May 31st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Can you believe a single word they say? The government’s new Energy Bill published last week was proclaimed as enabling the UK to “move away from high carbon technologies” (i.e. coal, oil and gas). The Bill says that to meet the government’s statutory commitment to cut greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, electricity plants must […]
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The Blairite who cares about values… he’s gone (to join the Lib Dems)
Apr 30th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Never mind that Jeremy Hunt. The real news of the day is about that fine young Blairite who cares about his values, Tristan Pithers. This morning we reported on his agonies: “I no longer feel that the Labour Party represents me, represents the values I hold or the ideas I believe in,” was his cry. […]
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Blairite considers defection to Lib Dems…. should he stay or should he go?
Apr 30th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.I’d never heard of Tristan Pithers before I’d read of his impending defection. But the fact that he’s only 21 and still a student diminishes his importance not a jot. Young activists are worth many more years than former ministers after all. And reading about his dilemma, I knew exactly how he felt: “I no […]
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Lords reform may break up Coalition: bring it on!
Apr 23rd, 2012 by Michael Meacher.It’s almost incredible that after public spending and benefit cuts of £109bn went through with scarcely a murmur of rebellion, the reform of the Lords now look set to be the issue that splits the Coalition in two. It’s incredible because no-one in their right mind can make the argument that with 92 hereditary peers […]
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Lib Dems face annihilation, says poll
Apr 18th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.No, really read on. We mean real annihilation. Although the YouGov poll on the 76 key Lib Dems seats was reported yesterday by the Sun and UK Polling Report, it was overshadowed by another YoGov poll which showed UKIP overtaking the Lib Dems at a national level, and even in its reporting, only the headline figures […]
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Hiding government’s sins and misdemeanours
Apr 5th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The nature of the British state and the government’s contempt for personal freedom come to a head with new laws proposed for the Queen’s Speech next month. It was already known that the government intended to bring forward a law to allow the police and MI5/6, without a warrant, to access data from every phone […]
