When David Cameron tires of this prime minister lark (don’t feel you have to take your time, Dave), he should write a self-help book for aspiring rightwing politicians. It could be titled I Got Away With It – And Here’s How You Can Too. I can think of some of the promo lines: “Are you […]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Service Cuts’
Austerity is not working
Jan 15th, 2012 by Gerry Adams.It seems like every time you turn on the news or open a newspaper there is a new crisis in the Eurozone. Last Friday’ decision by the credit rating agency Standard and Poor (an ironic name for such a body in the current context) downgraded France’s AAA credit rating. It also lowered that of 8 […]
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What Balls said, what Balls means
Jan 15th, 2012 by Carl Packman.Is there any reason to believe Ed Balls supports the Tory-led cuts agenda? No. He said that he accepted the cuts, not agreed with them. He also said “I cannot make commitments now for three years’ time. I won’t do that. It wouldn’t be credible.” So does Ed Balls have ideas to the contrary to […]
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European Union: gamechanger for the left
Dec 12th, 2011 by David Osler.I’m sure Milton Friedman would have appreciated the irony. The neoclassical economic prescriptions developed by him and others in the name of competition and freedom of choice is about to be awarded a continent-wide ideological monopoly, by force of state decree. If Merkel and Sarkozy get the new treaty they need to save the euro, […]
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The EU summit is another failure for austerity
Dec 12th, 2011 by Michael Burke.The outcome of the EU summit has widely been hailed in the British media as a triumph for David Cameron. It is rare that a complete rupture and isolation in multi-party negotiations is regarded as a triumph – but this is a function of the dominant and still growing xenophobia of the British press.
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Like the Somme, it’s not just the brutality of Osborne’s budget, it’s the futility
Dec 1st, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The sheer nastiness of the Osborne budget takes some getting used to, but it repays closer analysis. To feed the Government’s ideological obsession that not a penny more must be borrowed, the supposed growth projects (which appear very hazy and may take 10 years to come to fruition, if ever) are being funded by public […]
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There is an alternative (in Ireland too)
Nov 24th, 2011 by Gerry Adams.Since it came to power last February the Fine Gael/Labour government has blamed every bad decision, every u-turn in pre-election promises on the last government. Everything is Fianna Fáil’s fault. It is a fact that the current economic mess in the south is primarily a result of the bad policies of the last coalition government, […]
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Profits and austerity in the industrialised economies
Nov 15th, 2011 by Michael Burke.A previous article examined the profit rate in the Irish economy which is rising even though the economy continues to contract. Yet at the same time Ireland’s level of investment is falling. Corporate incomes – profits – are rising even though total economic activity is falling. Arithmetically, this can only occur by reducing the income of […]
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Slow-motion breakdown across our public services
Nov 15th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The real Border Agency scandal is not whether Theresa May or Brodie Clark authorised the relaxation of checks on millions of visitors over the summer, but rather that job cuts and expenditure squeezes are cutting swathes through the immigration rules. In the last fortnight it has been disclosed (and one wonders how much else has […]
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Labour must get to grips with the surge of outrage sweeping the world
Oct 24th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Occupy Wall Street, London and 900 other cities across the world challenges the Labour Party to demonstrate that it’s not just a clique holed up in the corridors of Westminster, but a mass campaigning organisation that reaches out to the people and responds to their demands. The second Occupation site now established in London’s Finsbury […]
