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UKIP have got a freepost address so, if you want to send their leaflets back at their expense, it's easily done. It's been noted tha...

The difference between Labour and Tory governments is that you can keep up with the pace of neoliberal evil Labour inflict. The Tories blast...

None of us like to think of ourselves as slave owners. It has become unsavoury to have house slaves so we squirrel them away out of sight in...

The MPs expenses scandal is still with us. George Osborne is a Chelsea fan (who else?). He just happens to have a meeting arranged with Ger...

Last Sunday the Mail headlined the Tory declaration that there will be no Mansion Tax. The – and I use the term in its broadest sense – new...

In the last days of that runaway train of Tory evil before the 1997 general election the man seen as their next leader, Michael Portillo, wa...

As the government introduced the Welfare Reform Bill, complaining of spongers getting easy money off the state for doing nothing, I saw nine...

Further to the last post , not only are Westminster Council punishing the unemployed wanting council houses, they're attacking the poor ...

With the massive demand for whatever council houses are left in the UK far outstripping supply, there has to be some method of prioritising ...

The Conservatives roll out plans to force benefit claimants to work for what was previously their right, but it is actually a scheme set in ...

the coalition is losing the argument about its central programme of cuts, even before it has announced them, let alone started carrying them...

'Reform' is a word that has shifted meaning in the last twenty years. Like 'modernise', in the mouth of a politician 're...

NHS Direct is the latest victim of the Tory cuts. The phone line was, itself, set up as a money-saver. People can ring up with minor ailme...

As the new government continues to shift the blame for poor health on to the unhealthy people - arguing that we should further stigmatise o...

We can learn a lot about the range and meaning of the colossal government spending cuts from the simple fact (as noted by Johann Hari) that...

The government says: - There are 2.47 million people unemployed . - The recent budget will cause the loss of a further 1.3 million jobs...

Cutmeister General David Laws got shoved out of office after being caught fraudulently claiming £40,000 in expenses, but there is far more ...