UK Anti-Austerity Protests – Politicians Talk With Protesters Over Cuts
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Belgian police clash with anti-austerity protesters
‘Police in Belgium have clashed with protesters in the capital, Brussels, where thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate against government austerity measures. On Wednesday, police used tear gas and water cannons to break up crowds of protesters in the city. Belgium’s three main unions said about 100,000 people gathered in the capital. […]
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Cuts to ‘bare bones’ social services force elderly to go hungry
‘Elderly and disabled people in the care system are going without regular food and drink due to government budget cuts, a report has found. A study by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) published on Tuesday discovered that care systems throughout the UK are failing to provide services for all those in need. […]
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Taxpayers’ Alliance: ‘Cut pensioner benefits now – they’ll be dead in 2020 anyway’
‘Following on from the Torygraph‘s revelation that Conservatives believe us all to be selfish, backstabbing and stupid, here’s the Tory-supporting Taxpayers’ Alliance, displaying all three of those qualities at once. The TPA, if you recall, exists to cut the tax bill (primarily – and selfishly – for the very rich, hence the close connection with […]
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UK benefit policy is to ‘save money by ensuring people die waiting for claims to be processed’
‘The Conservative Government has been challenged to let experts analyse the effects of its policies on benefit claimants, following the publication of – extremely limited – mortality figures in August. Disability studies specialist and disability activist Samuel Miller has written to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, and employment minister Priti Patel, asking whether […]
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UK economy ranked below Zimbabwe by World Economic Forum, thanks Cameron
‘While UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne claim their austerity policies are making the UK economy stronger, a devastating report by the World Economic Forum argues otherwise. In fact, parts of the UK economy are now performing worse than Haiti and Zimbabwe. The World Economic Forum releases it’s Global Competitiveness Survey […]
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Labour says no to austerity, vows aggressive tax crackdown
‘Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Monday voiced strong anti-austerity sentiments and said it would enforce an aggressive policy of collecting taxes from the wealthy if it won the next election. The Party’s top economic spokesman John McDonnell emphasized that major businesses will be forced to pay their “fair share” of taxes to help end austerity […]
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SYRIZA’s Pyrrhic Victory, and the Future of the Left in Greece
‘In the wake of the September 20 Greek election SYRIZA has once again formed a coalition government with a small right-wing party, ANEL. Both parties lost votes and seats but their standing, like those of most other parties, was not very dissimilar to the results in January, when SYRIZA was first elected. SYRIZA’s 35.46% and […]
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Journalist who uncovered suicide of man deemed ‘fit to work’ blacklisted by DWP
‘A journalist who uncovered the tragic suicide of a disabled man linked to the government’s fitness for work tests has been blacklisted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over his investigations. Editor of Disability News Service (DNS) John Pring, who uncovered a direct link between a mentally ill man’s suicide and the government’s […]
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Osborne’s austerity agenda fails to reduce deficit, ONS figures show
‘UK government borrowing increased in August, despite Chancellor George Osborne’s repeated promises that austerity is the most viable means of reducing the state’s deficit. In the face of scathing criticism, Osborne has consistently claimed the government’s austerity policies are necessary to keep the deficit in order. However, doubt over the credibility of his claims surfaced […]
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Varoufakis: Tories will use fear of Greek-style collapse to attack Labour anti-austerity
‘Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis warned Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his new frontbench team that Tory opponents would mount a campaign of fear against their anti-austerity message. Varoufakis addressed Corbyn, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Secretary for International Development Diane Abbott at a Peoples’ Assembly Against Austerity event on Monday night. […]
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A Panicked Brazil Promises Billions In Austerity, Does 180 On Budget After Downgrade
‘Exactly two weeks after conceding that a primary surplus was no longer in the cards after budget data in July came in meaningfully worse than expected, Brazil is scrambling to restore some semblance of confidence in the government’s ability to close a yawning budget gap by implementing austerity even as political turmoil has made embattled […]
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George Osborne’s higher minimum wage won’t make up for his tax credit cuts, IFS confirms
‘People on low incomes will be significantly worse off after changes to the minimum wage and tax credit and benefits system in George Osborne’s budget, it has been calculated. The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies said the Chancellor’s higher minimum wage would come nowhere near to compensating for simultaneous cuts to tax credits, leaving people […]
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The deficit is just a smokescreen for a Tory attack on the state, former civil service head says
‘The Conservatives’ argument that spending cuts need to be made to reduce government debt is a “smokescreen” for their real mission to shrink the size of the state, the former head of the civil service has said. Lord Turnbull, who also served as permanent secretary at the Treasury and principal private secretary to Margaret Thatcher, […]
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How the IMF Has Helped to Crush Greece
‘This autumn may see anti-austerity coalitions gain power in Portugal, Spain and Italy, while Marine le Pen’s National Front in France presses for outright withdrawal from the eurozone. These countries face a common problem: how to resist the economic devastation that the European Central Bank (ECB), European Council and International Monetary Fund (IMF) “troika” has […]
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