Politics

Former student Simon Crowther has written an open letter to his local MP regarding being mis-sold his student loan at a young age, of which the terms have now been changed by the Government.  The letter has since gone viral on Facebook and other social media sites and will strike a chord with millions of students and former students. STUDENT LOAN DEBACLE. I'm sure a lot of you are in the same situation as me. Please read and see if you...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Political donations are always a controversial topic and don’t sit well with most voters. Who is giving these gifts and why, are the questions most people wonder, when parties end up with huge sums of money. Well of all the political parties the Conservative Party receives more in donations than the rest of the parties put together this year, it has just been revealed. Over £6.7 million of the nearly £12 million in donations that...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was stand in day, so our esteemed chancellor and Angela Eagle stepped in to take the reins, but both became whipping boys for the same issues that effect Cameron and Corbyn at every PMQs, who I’ve labelled “Camcor’, and I hate myself for it. Eagle argued that the Conservative are split down the middle over the EU, Osborne quite rightly pointed out that the Labour Party is hardly a picture of unity. Osborne referred...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Shockingly the worst ten per cent of households actually paid back 47 per cent of their earnings back in taxes in 2014/15 compared to only 34 per cent for the richest ten per cent, reports the Mirror. The news will come as no shock to the households who struggle to feed themselves and regularly use food banks even though one or both members of the family will have paid employment. In the UK having a...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Another day another claim about Brexit, and what could happen to the UK economy if we decided to leave. Today was the turn of the IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies) who have said that leaving the EU would mean the Treasury would have to slash billions of pounds from British welfare and public services. The IFS believe that in the case of a “Brexit” there would be years of austerity and tax rises, which would...

Boris Johnson has seemingly leveraged the power of 'the force' after pushing a cameraman over without even touching him. The video was picked up by the team at Have I Got News For You, prompting Ian Hislop to say “for the first time, I’m actually frightened”. @BorisJohnson uses The Force to take down cameraman #starwars #HIGNFY @haveigotnews pic.twitter.com/jW1Cl6wfXu — Alistair Higham (@AlistairHigham1) May 16, 2016 It was later revealed that the cameraman fell back over a palate supporting bulky-looking bags.  Boris...

Boris Johnson is set to receive a £72,000 a year parachute payment for stepping down as London Mayor. The sum is given to every former boss of the capital who leaves City Hall, according to The Sun, and is used as a resettlement grant to ease the blow of the sudden loss of career. But Johnson earned £612,000 last year and is set for a similar sum again as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip as well as various publishing deals and...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the Government was facing a defeat in the lead up to the hotly debated EU referendum, they have accepted that the NHS will now be protected by the highly controversial TTIP. The amendment was backed by an unlikely alliance of SNP, Green, Tory and Labour MPs. Now there is a guarantee that the NHS will now be protected by the deal. The cross-party alliance of Eurosceptic MPs demanded the NHS is protected from controversial...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Official figures released by NHS Improvement have shown that NHS trust in England, closed 2015-16 financial year, £461m worse off than had been forecasted. This means that we now have a record deficit in England of £2.45bn, the largest in its history. The health service is trying to cope with a large rise in demand and budget constraints, leaving it with this dire financial black hole. NHS financial experts claim the full scale of the...