Tories
News round-up - more workers are in poverty, says new charity report
04 December 2018A fifth of the population in Britain is in poverty according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation charity—and some four million are workers.
Crisis for Theresa May as vote on Brexit deal looms
04 December 2018Nobody at the top of society knows what will happen in British politics in the next two weeks—including Theresa May. A crisis has struck at the heart of the government and the Tories.
Volunteering is no answer to Tory cuts
04 December 2018Eight years after David Cameron pledged to create a “Big Society” the Tories have finally made good on his promise.
May’s frantic fight in Brexit deal vote
27 November 2018Theresa May and big business are desperately trying to whip MPs into backing the Tory Brexit deal.
The Troublemaker—MPs hide how £3 billion gets spent on spooks in Britain
27 November 2018Matthew Hedges said in the UAE last week he was a spy, and this week said he wasn’t.
As Brexit chaos continues - grab this chance to push the Tories out
20 November 2018Theresa May survived the first blasts of the Brexit crisis storm. But she still seems headed for disaster.
The Troublemaker—Brexit chaos special
20 November 2018When the plot hits your eye like a big pizza pie you’re a Tory
LETTERS—Home Office racism did not stop with Windrush scandal
20 November 2018In the wake of the Windrush scandal the Home Office continue to threaten Commonwealth citizens with deportation.
Explained—why there is a crisis over Brexit now
20 November 2018Rows over a new Brexit bill have intensified divisions among the Tories and the bosses. None of them want a way forward that will benefit working class people
What does global capital want out of a Brexit deal?
20 November 2018Brexit has become, as numerous commentators have pointed out, a historic crisis of the British state
Tory austerity destroys lives for ideological reasons, says UN official
16 November 2018"What I saw is a lot of misery. A lot of people feel the system is failing them. They feel the system is there just to punish them,” said the UN's Philip Alston
What’s the deal with the Tories’ Brexit agreement?
16 November 2018The Tory Brexit deal seeks to protect business and attack migrants.
As May clings on—call for protests and demand a general election
15 November 2018This should be the moment for Labour and the trade unions to call for protests everywhere demanding May out, Tories out and a general election now
Cabinet accepts Theresa May’s Brexit deal but Tory chaos continues
14 November 2018The Tory cabinet accepted Theresa May’s draft Brexit deal—after a five-hour meeting on Wednesday.
Tory hypocrisy over famine in Yemen
13 November 2018Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt called on Saudi Arabia to “stop famine and cholera intensifying” in Yemen ahead of meeting with the country’s rulers this week.
Use Brexit rows to get the Tories out
13 November 2018Government ministers were summoned to an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss a Brexit deal. It was unclear whether it would be approved by the cabinet, and still more uncertain what will happen when it goes to parliament. May's crisis is far from over.
The Troublemaker - Millionaire Tory landlord in sick video of Grenfell effigy
13 November 2018One of the six men arrested over a vile bonfire night effigy of Grenfell Tower is a property millionaire who owns an £8 million block of flats in Clapham, south London
Millions on Universal Credit left poorer by Tories’ budget
13 November 2018A majority of claimants will still be worse off under the Tories’ Universal Credit (UC) despite extra money promised in the budget.
Don’t give cops more power to use stop and search
12 November 2018Police chiefs want to make it easier to harass black people. They have met with senior Tories to discuss getting rid of requirements that cops must have “reasonable grounds” to search someone.
Report from MPs slams ‘pointlessly cruel’ benefit sanctions
06 November 2018A damning report slammed the government’s brutal benefit sanctions regime. It said the human cost of sanctions, where benefits are withheld, is “simply too high” and “pointlessly cruel”.
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- Universal Credit is a Tory threat to women
- Reports round-up: 250 join unofficial walkout over university library cuts
- Brexit and the sham of capitalist democracy
- College lecturers across Scotland and in England strike over pay
- Reports round-up: march for jobs at Honda
- Yellow Vest movement has Emmanuel Macron on the run
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