Tonight I came home to find my ballot paper waiting in the letter box. Tomorrow I will be able to cast my postal vote for my Labour candidate (me as it happens). In voting I will be joined by millions of others. Stop and reflect a minute. Because my vote only has the same weight as yours and […]
Posts Tagged ‘Corporate power’
At the ballot box, we’re all equal for a moment – let’s vote to keep it that way
Apr 30th, 2015 by Jon Trickett.
Cut corporate welfare not people’s welfare
Oct 9th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Corporate welfare has been estimated in a University of York social policy study to cost British taxpayers nearly £85bn a year. That is not far short of the current level of the entire budget deficit which is still £100bn. If industrial-scale corporate tax avoidance were added in to the corporate welfare state, the cost to […]
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Why media conglomerates should be broken up
Jul 8th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The hacking trials aren’t even half the issue. The hard, unavoidable fact remains that the power of the Murdoch press – the real unspoken stain behind the Brooks-Coulson trials – is undiminished and has still not been broken. It is best illustrated by the run-up of events to the long-planned Murdoch campaign to take over […]
