Politics

If you’re paying even the slightest attention, you’ll know that Brexit negotiations are not going well. As the Dalai Lama once said, “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” The most optimistic thing you can do in this situation pack your bags and get the hell outta Dodge. Leaving the UK might seem drastic, but it’s the only way to secure yourself a brighter future. Here are some tips to make moving abroad that little bit simpler.   Choose a...

This afternoon the Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Fallon, told the House of Commons Defence Committee that criticism of the Saudi Arabian regime and its brutal bombardment of Yemen is a hindrance to arms sales. This was part of an update he gave on negotiations to sell a further batch of Eurofighter jets to the Saudi Royal Air Force. UK has licensed £3.8 billion worth of arms to Saudi forces since the bombing of Yemen began in 2015 and...

During today's Prime Minister's Questions, Jeremy Corbyn delivered a scathing attack on the weakness of Theresa May's Government. Jeremy Corbyn once again seemed to get the better of his opponent in open debate. The Leader of the Opposition asked questions on last week's House of Commons vote on Universal Credit, the implementation of Universal Credit, the minimum wage and the record of the current Government. During a bad week for the current Prime Minister, a forlorn looking Theresa May struggled...

After the Tories decided not to bother to turn up to vote to "pause and fix" the mess of Universal Credit you would think the Sec of State, responsible for the policy implementation, would turn up for a debate on it...well you would be wrong. Today's debate was granted by John Bercow after he criticised the government's response to the Opposition day debate last week which Labour won by 299 to 0. Debbie Abrahams demanded to know why David Gauke,Secretary of...

The SNP government’s failure to tackle delayed discharge has cost the NHS more than £100 million in the last year, according to Labour analysis confirmed by the independent experts at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Spice). NHS Scotland estimates that it costs £214 per day to keep a patient in hospital who is medically cleared to return home. In the period of September 2016 to August 2017, the most recent figures available, 511,972 bed days were occupied by delayed discharge...

This is nothing short of an attempted cover up, but it’s no wonder that Ministers fought tooth and nail to cover up these damning figures GMB, the union for public sector workers, has exposed a shock Treasury report which Chancellor Philip Hammond tried to hide showing public sector wages are now below those in the private sector. The union has accused the Treasury of ‘covering up’ the study – which reveals that in 2016 public sector workers were paid 0.6...

Thank you for that fantastic welcome and thank you for inviting me here today. I want to begin by saying that today’s “Socialists Together” conference is a great initiative, and when Gianni Pittella invited me to speak, I was very glad to accept. I want to thank everybody from all the participating organisations, from many different countries, for being here to take part and contribute to this critical debate about the future of socialist and progressive politics and the future...

For anyone not familiar with Britain First, it's a single Facebook page for people to share hateful and largely illiterate ideas that sink to a whole new level of stupid. Britain First describes itself as a Political Party standing up for nationalism and British Sovereignty, opposing colonisation and promoting Christianity. Britain First generally share fake pictures of foreigners going about their business in Middle Eastern cities, claiming the snap was taken in York or Swindon. Photos of Pakistani cricket supporters...

The Conservative Party is staring into oblivion after not being able to muster a majority to vote to protect their flagship policy - Iain Duncan Smith’s vilified Universal Credit. The Labour Party voted to pause the botched benefits reforms with 299 votes to 0 to win another popular victory after their recent unchallenged vote to roll back nurses’ pay cap. "The ayes to the right 299, the noes to the left, 0. - The ayes have it, the ayes have it,”...