The politics of the left in the UK

[amateur51]

And don't let's forget the proposed 11% pay rise for MPs' basic salary.


Not before Chilcott Report is published & not before the public's power to recall hopeless MPs is passed & not before a legal minimum percentage turn-out for elections is established too - if Mr Maude thinks it's good enough for the unions then it's good enough for MPs..

Any more for any more?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If you mean George Osborne's speech to the Tory conference stating their intention to hit benefits yet again,

That's exactly what and whom I was referring to.

(G.O. has the same shifty eyes as a former England football captain accused of racism.)

[P. G. Tipps]

That's exactly what and whom I was referring to.

(G.O. has the same shifty eyes as a former England football captain accused of racism.)

Possibly, but just think of the only alternative ...

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3841989.ece/alternates/s615/Ed-Balls.jpg

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Possibly, but just think of the only alternative ...

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/arti...5/Ed-Balls.jpg

He was a good education secretary.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

why none of them will do and what is missing on the left in a thoughtful piece in the graun

[aeolium]

And another graun piece on how the extent of corporate welfare is rarely discussed by the political and media establishment in comparison with social welfare, the latter nearly always the target of cuts and the former almost never:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/06/benefits-corporate-welfare-research-public-money-businesses

[Serial_Apologist]

And another graun piece on how the extent of corporate welfare is rarely discussed by the political and media establishment in comparison with social welfare, the latter nearly always the target of cuts and the former almost never:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...ney-businesses

The argument of course goes that businesses bring revenue to the economy whereas unemployed people don't. But in a certain sense they bring other benefits, no pun: for one thing, keeping an army of unemployed is capitalism's way of offloading the consequences of its own contradictions working through periodically in business cycles onto those whose economic and thus self-representational power count for nothing in mobilizability terms; for another they are a reminder to the employed not to "price themselves" out of jobs by falling for the palliatives of passing satisfaction and career path-making that maintain the illusion of progress while having someone lower down in the order of things to blame whenever things go wrong. The propaganda machine will pick your scapegoats for you if you're having difficulty every time.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

oops replicated your link on the whither etc thread aeolium can't have too much of a good thing eh