By John Percival This week, Labour MPs walked through the voting lobby and into George Osborne’s trap to shrink the welfare state. The welfare cap, which Ed Balls pledged the party to support, was one based on Tory spending plans, which have helped create the cost of living crisis faced Read more…
Diane Abbott’s speech on the social security cap on 26th March 2014 ‘Any member of the public watching this debate this afternoon and listening to people jeer, laugh, smirk and joke might imagine that some Members of this House were playing a game. Well, I am rising to say to Read more…
Steve Turner, Unite the Union, speech at Labour Assembly Against Austerity’s Ending Austerity Budgets on 17th March 2014. I share the comments Katy made with regards to Tony and Bob. Bob in particular was a close personal friend, a fellow Millwall supporter, we shared many a beer down The Den Read more…
Katy Clark MP’s speech to Labour Assembly Against Austerity’s Ending Austerity Budgets meeting on 17th March 2014 It’s been a very sad week for the left in many ways. For those of us who knew and worked with Bob Crow and felt the suddenness of his passing, it’s been a very Read more…
By Ben Folley. Labour’s response to next Wednesday’s Budget will be the starting pistol for the next election. That is why Labour activists are gathering at the Labour Assembly Against Austerity meeting on Monday night, with Katy Clark MP, Steve Turner, Owen Jones and Polly Toynbee, to discuss what positive Read more…
By Katy Clark MP. We expect nothing else from the Tories than an unrelenting ideological commitment to austerity. George Osborne’s announcement that the Conservatives will look to make £25 million cuts after the next election and David Cameron’s November call for “permanent austerity” must dispel any pretence that the coalition’s Read more…