The Road To Social Justice
Opponents confuse the fact that we are fighting for social justice with an anti business rhetoric – and this couldn’t be further from the truth. Social justice and pro-business objectives are not mutually exclusive – and we shouldn’t get confused by Tory dogma that they are. I am 100% pro-business – particularly small and medium sized businesses – who are […]
Continue reading »One of the things that we here a lot about, from all side of the political spectrum, is about looking after the senior citizens in our society. And, the Conservatives, along with the Liberal Democrats have pushed this agenda over the course of the last parliament – including the ‘triple lock’ on pensions – a guarantee that state pension payments […]
Continue reading »Workfare is, unfortunately, anything but fair. Workfare is a catch-all used to describe government sanctioned schemes that require benefit claimants to do unpaid work in return for their benefits – in many cases unpaid work for profit-making, private sector companies. The Tories say that Workfare is not compulsory – the reason they give is that if benefit claimants do not […]
Continue reading »As a first post, of probably many many more in this parliament, I’m going to outline policies and promises that would compromise my manifesto if I was seeking election. The first promise that I would announce is an immediate end, on day 1 of my theoretical government, to the bedroom tax. The bedroom tax was a policy implemented during the last […]
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