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Posts under ‘Young People’
Plebs take over the asylum: Andrew Mitchell’s office occupied
Dec 5th, 2012 by Keith Wright.Andrew Mitchell, the Tory former chief whip who famously told a police officer to “learn your fucking place, you fucking pleb”, may wish he hadn’t made enemies of the old bill. For who will defend him now his own constituency office has been taken over by activists fed up with austerity and the government’s contempt […]
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Why we should be bothered about long-term funemployment
Dec 4th, 2012 by Lucy Reese.It’s not often that I thank my lucky stars that I’m middle aged, but when I read articles like this, I’m glad I’m 42 not 22. This article is one of many I’ve seen recently bemoaning the lot of young people, desperate for jobs in ‘cool’ industries like media or politics, who end up working […]
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UKIP’s Foster Care “Scandal”
Nov 25th, 2012 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.There’s a stench in the air, the stench of opportunism. Rotherham Borough Council’s decision to remove foster kids from a couple on the grounds they are UKIP members has caused something of a stir this. Farage has been dribbling his outrage over the airwaves, describing it as “typical of the bigotry you get from the Labour […]
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For the Tories, housing is just another market chip
Nov 13th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.A right to decent housing does not exist in the Tory lexicon. Three Tory measures in the last few weeks are now exposing the ruthlessness with which a rigged market is cutting swathes through the housing needs of all the most vulnerable groups within the population. First, housing benefit is being abolished for all persons […]
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Student newspapers: no place for fascists
Nov 8th, 2012 by Aaron Kiely.Last week the Leeds Student – an official paper of Leeds University Union – defied their union’s ‘no platform for fascists’ policy and published an interview with Nick Griffin, both in their print addition and online. The interview since also been published by Cardiff University’s SU paper. In response to this appalling decision students from […]
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The normalisation of temporary work
Oct 25th, 2012 by Keir McCormack.Apply for a temp position, and you’ll see just how harsh the jobs market is at the moment. When I was invited to interview for a three-week Christmas job at a Royal Mail sorting office, I was expecting that if I got it, I’d be one of many students sifting the letters. Especially with anxiety […]
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Let’s make Young Labour accountable
Oct 23rd, 2012 by Conrad Landin.As elections for the national committee of Young Labour loom on the horizon, young members will be asking: what did they ever do for us? You might think this unfair. It’s possible that the committee members work very hard (I know, in fact, of a number that do.) But with no accountability and no sense […]
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Housing benefit: the scandal and the myth
Oct 16th, 2012 by Richard Johnson.George Osborne and David Cameron’s call to end housing benefit for people under the age of 25 is the latest move in a government so right wing that it would make Margaret Thatcher blush. In an interview with James Naughtie on Radio 4’s Today programme this week, David Cameron set out to explain why he […]
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What happened to Young Labour’s ‘radical zeal’?
Oct 8th, 2012 by Conrad Landin.I was bewildered when there was at the Young Labour fringe event at party conference last Wednesday, there was no mention of the policies we had voted for.
