The public administration select committee, that scrutinises Whitehall, yesterday published a further report on the “payroll vote” – Ministers and unpaid Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPSs) who are expected to support the government line or resign. The Committee Chair, Patrick Jenkin, Conservative MP for for Harwich and North Essex, did not mince his words, talking of the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’
The voice of a new generation and why it’s kicking off everywhere
Oct 17th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.From the Arab Spring, to #OccupyEverywhere. This video makes the link brilliantly. Do watch it. But why is it all happening? What is it about the new generation? Back in February, Paul Mason wrote a brilliant blog with twenty reasons why it was kicking off everywhere, in the Arab world, in Greece, Ireland, France and […]
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Who governs?
Jul 15th, 2011 by Owen Jones.I’ll be honest. A couple of weeks ago, I was in utter despair with Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party. I bet many of you reading this were, too. He was stuck on repeat (literally) attacking public sector workers driven to strike by the government, leaving it to PCS leader Mark Serwotka and the BBC’s […]
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Who rules Britain? The Bankers.
Mar 8th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.So Mervyn King, Britain’s central bank governor, warned at the weekend that another financial crisis was brewing. He is right. There are four problems with the banks, and none of them has been resolved – lending, tax, pay, rebalancing. On every one of them the banks have faced down the Government. So who’s in charge? […]
