The Taxpayers Alliance is ritually humiliating our public sector on April 17, 2017The time has come around again for the Taxpayers’ Alliance, that slightly unhinged right-wing pressure group that resents the Government’s tax income being spent on anything at all that might benefit its citizens – offering affordable student loans, paying our GPs, offering child benefit and giving public sector staff the right to take sick leave […]
This is the year that Britain will allow working families to slide into poverty on December 31, 2016 Be grateful for what you’ve got, because things are only going to get worse. That is the warning from the influential Westminster think tank that spends its time head-scratching over the fate of low- and middle-income families. In the run-up to Christmas, the Resolution Foundation published two short but interesting pieces which, taken together, […]
Stop complaining about the legal challenge to Brexit – this is your beloved democracy in action on November 6, 2016Those who characterise the 48 per cent who voted to Remain in the EU referendum as “Remoaners” don’t like what they’re hearing today. After the High Court agreed that Theresa May would need the approval of Parliament to trigger Article 50 and start the process to leave the EU – ensuring that MPs will have […]