It emerged in the Budget debate which ended yesterday in the Commons that the need for spending cuts is far from the inevitability that Osborne has always claimed. The independent OBR estimates of growth for the next 5 years, albeit recently scaled down, are still 1.7% this year, 2.5% next year, 2.9% the year after that, […]
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Corporate Britain is running scared
Jan 22nd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.We know that web-based organisations like Wikileaks and UKUncut are doing a great job, but it is still gratifying to read that corporate Britain is running scared as a result. The question is will it make the tax dodgers clean up their act. PR Week gives us some clues, but it’s not god news! The […]
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Back to the future?
Jan 9th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.Something of an impassioned debate has been taking place re; the future of the student movement. Despite seeming new and exciting its my view that this debate has run pretty much along firmly established lines. One side, throws the baby out with the bath water and declares everything that has gone before is rubbish. The […]
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Making Vodaphone pay
Nov 1st, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Targetting corporate tax avoidance is not only a good and imaginative way to campaign against cutting welfare and public services, but a good alternative to them too. The case against Vodaphone has been made by Private Eye and financial website, thisismoney, and you can read an excellent summary at Liberal Conspiracy. The recruitment by Vodaphone […]
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Ed Miliband’s speech at the CBI
Oct 26th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Ed Miliband’s speech at the CBI has been widely reported. “New Labour” survivors are keenest to quote this: New Labour’s insight in the 1990s was to recognise that we needed to be a party that understood wealth creation as well as its distribution, that we needed to be for economic prosperity as well as social […]
