The Road To Social Justice
Well now this is an interesting one. Could Parliament, comprising the House of Commons and the House of Lords be on it’s way to Manchester? Well, it’s a possibility for sure, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Parliament, like the UK, to a certain extent is London-centric. The problem with this, is that there is already a prevailing perception that […]
Continue reading »Harriet Harman, Interim Leader of the Labour Party has today written a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron opposing the plans to scrap our cherished Human Rights Act – that protects your core fundamental rights, such as the right to life, fair trail, protection from torture, liberty and security. I’ve co-signed the letter that has been sent to David Cameron […]
Continue reading »So, our esteemed Chancellor, George Osborne, has decided to sell the 80% stake that we, the taxpayers, hold in the Royal Bank of Scotland. Now, I completely agree with the fact that we do not want any of the banks in majority public ownership. We didn’t want them in public ownership in the first place. But the fact remains that […]
Continue reading »So… fasting during Ramadan has been in the news today and is quite topical as Ramadan is expected to start on either the 18th or 19th June next week. There’s calls from a leading Muslim scholar that the period of fasting during Ramadan should be shortened in countries such as the UK. As the country is further north than countries in the […]
Continue reading »Well I’ve always thought that the proposed EU Referendum would backfire – and if it hadn’t done already, it most certainly looks like it is doing so now. Now, Labour have recently decided to back the EU referendum – whatever the pros and cons (I personally don’t back an EU referendum), there’s no point in opposing the referendum in […]
Continue reading »Wow, where to start with this one. Recently there’s been two ‘boobgate’ controversies – just to be clear, I’m talking about naked photos on mountains in Malaysia ‘boobgate’ not the Nickelodeon cartoon one (I know, that one passed me by as well). Now firstly, of course it was a silly thing to do. Everyone does silly things, especially whilst we’re […]
Continue reading »The Tories are once again showing that no matter how much you say you are a party for “the hard working people of our country” that there actions show that they are anything but. Tory strike law proposals outlined immediately after winning their slim majority in Parliament are some of the most anti-worker proposals proposed for decades – and bearing in […]
Continue reading »So the Labour Leadership contest is starting to heat up and along with some of the first candidates, Chuka Umunna, the bookies favourite and frontrunner for the leadership through his hat in, before promptly, and quite surprisingly, picking it back up and taking it out again. Everyone seems to be truly baffled as to how this bizarre set of circumstances […]
Continue reading »So, yesterday we had protests, which started outside Conservative HQ and then made their way towards Downing Street.
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