Children in poverty soares under Tory policies
Analysis by the TUC of HBAI (Households below average income) data reveals child poverty in working families rose to 2.9 million in 2018 – an increase of 38% since 2010 when the Tory and...
Daily Archive: November 25, 2019
The Green New Deal: how to make it happen
Summary by Richard Murphy of an ambitious plan to tackle climate breakdown at the scale and speed set out by science. Follow the steps here. You can download the full paper here.
Polls at odds
After a dearth of Scottish polls Datapraxis have published a UK-wide seat projection based upon 270,000 YouGov interviews which were run through their predictive MRP model. SCOT goes POP suggests the results should be...
“We could be signing away the crown jewels for not very much in return.”
EU Law expert Professor Michael Dougan dissects Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal
‘Sinister’ Plan To Put Government ‘Beyond Legal Scrutiny’
According to an article by Rachel Wearmouth in the Huffington Post Joanna Cherry and Jolyon Maugham, who fought Boris Johnson’s three week prorogation of parliament in the courts, the Tories have “very sinister” plans...
People democracy
One of the really interesting things about elections is the opportunity for everybody to get involved, ask questions, challenge political nonsense, whoever it comes from, and run their own campaigns to keep politicians on...
Politics is too important to leave to politicians
What is a non-party campaigner? Lots of individuals and organisations campaign around elections without standing candidates themselves. We call them ‘non-party campaigners’. Non-party campaigners are vital to a healthy democracy and, as a society, we must encourage their active...
