http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-calls-for-urgent-esa-overhaul-as-part-of-drive-to-cut-down-welfare-costs-10468503.html Iain Duncan Smith calls for urgent ESA overhaul as part of drive to cut down welfare costs Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith This story clearly exposes why the people of our country should not be expected to go through another 5 years of this wretched government with its malicious and divisive policies of austerity and resultant the destruction of the fabric of society. Iain Duncan Smith warns that Employment and Support Allowance, the benefit paid to the sick and disabled will be urgently overhauled. Weasel words to conceal yet another attack on those least able to defend themselves against the excesses of a government intent on creating a Tory dominated society with a totally subservient people where business and private organisations are allowed to enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary p...
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disabled-and-elderly-campaigners-protesting-removal-of-travel-concessions-kettled-by-the-police-at-sheffield-railway-station-9560606.html Disabled and elderly campaigners protesting removal of travel concessions ‘kettled by the police’ at Sheffield railway station Pensioners and disabled arrested The establishment and their police force are becoming desperate in their quest for control. This time they attack disabled and pensioners. The time is not too far off when they will attack everyone in the name of "the fight against terrorism".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/unite-union-boss-len-mccluskey-threatens-to-launch-party-to-rival-labour-9231266.html Unite union boss Len McCluskey threatens to launch party to rival Labour Len McCluskey: General Secretary of Unite "a rival party could be created to challenge Labour if it does not win next year." The need for a new party on the Left of British politics is already clearly evident. Whether the Labour party win the next general election or not, is neither here nor there. By qualifying the suggestion of a new party, McCluskey repeats the very same duplicity which has plagued the present Labour party for decades. Namely that ideology and principle are somehow linked to winning elections and that such principles can be shelved or even discarded in order to achieve electoral success. That was one, but not the only one, of the reasons why I left the Labour party shortly before Blair became leader. Labour had degenerated from a party...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/27/ed-miliband-energy-price-controls-freeze-big-six Ed Miliband to propose fresh energy price controls Miliband will tell the Federation of Small Businesses that he wants to create an open market economy where small businesses can grow and make bigger profits. Ed Miliband. The "policy" to control energy prices is popular amongst a large proportion of the public, (aka. voters). The only question is which, of the variants from each of the major parties solutions to achieve the same objective, will the voters select as their preferred option? Each segment of the Coalition, Miliband's version of Labour, and soon no doubt to be joined by Farange and his UKIP, compete with each other to offer what they hope will be the most popular solution to solve the problem and "deal with the broken energy market" and finally end the energy companies cartel in the supply and distribution of energy in this cou...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/26/ed-miliband-welfare-rebellion_n_5033370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Ed Miliband Faces Labour Rebellion For Backing Welfare Cap Ed Miliband:. More at home in the Conservative party? The Labour leader Ed Miliband has ordered his MPs to back the cap on overall welfare spending. This instruction to elected MP's, or at least the reasoning behind the order, demonstrates how far the Labour Party and its leadership has drifted away from the traditional base and principles of the Labour movement. Were this directive, enthusiastically endorsed by Balls and supported by the entire front bench of the Parliamentary Labor party, based on any sound economic benefit, then there may, just may, be some grounds for supporting such a policy. However, there is no such economic reasoning and the Labour MP's at least the majority of them, will troupe into the "Aye" lobby in support of the ConDem coalition and their Tory m...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/27/unite-labour-possible-funding-cut "Unite" to consider cut in affiliation fees. Len McCluskey general secretary of Unite The Labour Party was destroyed by Blair, Mandellson, Brown, Campbell and the other conspirators of "New Labour", many of whom still sit in the Commons today. Len McCluskey is stating what many trade unions are now accepting as fact, rather than the rhetoric of Miliband minor and the rest of the party "leadership" are trotting out in seeking to preserve their positions. It is time that the TUC and all affiliated organisation followed the lead of Unite and dumped the Labour party completely.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/21/ed-miliband-change-labour-tony-blair_n_4834119.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Miliband To Radically Change Labour Party Far More Than Blair Blair and Miliband: Full circle Miliband has still not grasped the essential truth. The reasons for the disillusionment people feel about politics, the decline in numbers of people voting in elections, the growing perception of a rift between politicians and public has nothing to do with leadership elections within the party, reforms in the relationship between the Trade Union movement and the party or even Prime Ministers Questions in the Commons. The problems result from the inexorable shift in policy direction of the party to the so called "centre ground" in British politics. This shift, to a certain extent commenced by Niel Kinnock but certainly carried to extreme and disastrous lengths by Blair, Mandelsson, Brown and Campbell has resulted in working people, pens...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/31/ed-miliband-labour-union-funding-shakeup Ed Miliband's Labour-union shakeup Miliband will "look at the structure of Party Conference" The sooner the TUC dumps this current apology for a "Labour" party with its pathetic "leadership" the better. Milliband is sounding more and more like Blair with each passing day. The comment that he would, ""complete unfinished business of the past 20 years" and the proposal to introduce "sweeping reforms" designed to recast Labour's historic link with the trade unions, could have been written by Alastair Campbell. (With all the intrigue and conspiracies currently taking place, we may be excused for believing the phrase actually was produced from Campbell's pen.) Blair destroyed the Labour party and Milliband is just raking through the debris.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/miliband-plans-to-cut-off-the-hand-that-fed-him-with-ambitious-plan-to-rob-trade-unions-of-their-onethird-share-of-labour-leadership-vote-9065436.html Miliband ready to abolish the electoral college in which unions, MPs and party members currently have 33 per cent of the voting power. cynicism and hypocrisy Miliband going down "Blair Street" thinking that the Trade Union movement have nothing to do with the Labour Party. Miliband minor should remember what Blair and Miliband major and all the other anti union "Labour" MP's attempted to forget in pursuit of the populist vote. The Trade Union Congress formed the Labour Party. It was the Trade Union Congress together with the Labour Party (in 1945 at least) who took on the employers and the ruling establishment. I have argued before and repeat now, that the TUC and all affiliated organisations should dump the Labour Party and create a Party from t...
This thought should be remembered by all those, who demonise, demean, mock, patronise or otherwise insult the sick,the disabled, the unemployed, the benefit claimants, those reliant on Foodbanks and other charities, the poor and the homeless and all those other sections of our society who are vulnerable and least able to defend themselves.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/10/ed-miliband-tuc-speech-lukewarm-reception Ed Miliband's TUC speech receives lukewarm reception Having watched the whole of Ed Miliband's televised speech to the TUC yesterday,(10th September 2013) and the subsequent session of planted questions, it was noticeable how restrained the delegates were in their responses to the Labour Party's leader. This is not particularly surprising when you consider that Miliband's offering was more froth than content and that the speech was full of cliche, feeble attempts at humour and patronising remarks about the "backbone of Britain", "the vision of our founders"and "hearing from the people who are your members" and at the end of a twenty minute performance, a reference to his " vision" of a one nation Britain . A poor performance which offered little, other than a vague reference that a future Labour government would legi...