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Regional pay: how to increase the North-South divide and weaken the ConDem coalition?
As anticipated following Chancellor George Osborne’s budget, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has now declared that ‘regional’ pay for health workers is on the agenda. Needless to say, those in the South-East will earn more under this arrangement than colleagues further North. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, ConDems, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, economy, George Osborne, health, housing, Liberal Democrat, NHS, Nick Clegg, pay, regional, strategy
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CSA charges: the ConDems punish women and children, and shield men (again)
The ConDem administration doesn’t just disregard women; it evidently wants to put them firmly back under the control, however odious, of men. How else can we explain the intention as an element of the Welfare Reform Bill that single parents … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Support Agency, children, Coalition, Conservative, David Cameron, fathers, feminist, Liberal Democrat, mothers, Nasty Party, Nick Clegg, poverty, single mums, Welfare Reform Bill
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LibDem MPs must cross the floor to Labour, now
Ed Miliband finally concurs with me, that LibDem MPs of integrity must cross the floor to Labour. In today’s Observer he says it is “late, but not too late” for any LibDems of good faith to join him on the … Continue reading
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Tagged DE-governance, Ed Miliband, Labour, Liberal Democrat, political defections, public services
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Roll on 5 May, Councillor Bradley?
Spring. The days get longer, and my personal livid gets stronger. Not a healthy state for anyone, but with a fair wind perhaps we shall see a degree of amelioration on 5 May (UK local and devolved government election day). … Continue reading
LibDems must cross the floor – before it’s all too late
It’s said we in the UK are stuck with the nightmare of Conservative slash-and-burn for a full five years. The Conservatives’ oh-so-junior partners, the Liberal Democrats, are in this view unwilling and afraid to say Stop. I don’t agree. It doesn’t have to be … Continue reading
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Tagged DE-governance, Labour, Liberal Democrat, manifesto, Nick Clegg, political defections
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Tory ‘dictatorship of the moment’ … LibDems, where are you?
There is clear and fundamental purpose behind the apparent chaos of the current Conservative-led ‘reforms’. The chaos is a cover, whether intentional or not, to distract us whilst a root-and-branch revision of the rules of engagement is being embedded into UK politics. There’s little doubt now … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, Coalition, Conservative, David Cameron, George Osborne, Liberal Democrat, Nick Clegg, Robert Tressell, Victorian
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Patronising paternalism about parental leave
Two articles in today’s Times (18 January 2011) remind me yet again why there is so far still for women in the UK to go. In one article, ‘Extra paternity pay is needed to free women, says Clegg’, we learn … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Conservative, David Cameron, economy, Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman, infants, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Lynne Featherstone, maternity, Nick Clegg, parents, Theresa May, welfare state, workforce
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One woman, loadsa chaps in Oldham election
What do the Conservatives, Green Party, LibDems, UKIP and five other smaller political parties have in common in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election today? The answer is that they are all fielding male candidates; so these comprise 90% of … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cameron, Debbie Abrahams, diversity, elections, equality, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrat, political parties
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Incompetent Conservative Government… or de-governance?
Michael Tomasky of The Guardian, in a recent article entitled ‘Good at theatre, dreadful at governing’, quoted the American scholar Alan Wolfe’s view of conservative (e.g. Republican) politicians: Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, communities, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, George Osborne, government, incompetence, Labour, Liberal Democrat, NHS, Nick Clegg, philosophy, small state, social class
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