It seems Manchester is likely to host twice as many protesters against the Conservatives as last time they held their conference in the city – but will the national TV media deign to cover the protests, or will they ignore the impressive list of events, as they did last year?

As many as 100,000 anti-Tory protesters could descend on Manchester this weekend when the Conservative party conference returns to the city, according to one pressure group attending.

Various anti-Tory protests and events are scheduled to take place, including a comedy night, Laugh Them Out of Town, featuring Frankie Boyle, and a rally at which the Labour and Green leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Natalie Bennett are among the speakers.

The main event however, is a huge anti-austerity national demonstration organised by the TUC and the People’s Assembly, which is expecting more than 100,000 marchers, double the number of people that attended last time the Tories were in town. Other projections have been slightly more modest.

Source: Anti-Tory protests expected in Manchester | UK news | The Guardian

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If the political system remains committed to the type of capitalism that exists in Britain today, it will always end up justifying a system that produces a mega-rich and privileged elite. Hence, why Jeremy Corbyn is such a threat to the establishment.

Jeremy Corbyn looks like the first senior politician who will not be corrupted by the establishment. Bankers will not be funding the party. He will not support war. He doesn’t support Israel, He is not religious and doesn’t believe in the monarchy. He will be the first prime minister (if elected) for decades that does not, and probably will not support the establishment.

So frightened of Corbyn, the establishment is now mobilising their entire resourcefullness at him, evidenced by a threatened military coup – not quite akin to Chile in the 1970’s but an extreme tactic to say the least, one spawned from desperation for sure.

The full article makes fascinating reading and can be found here: Why The British Establishment Wants Jeremy Corbyn Buried – TruePublica

What do you think?

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David Cameron has accused some British overseas territories and crown dependencies of not doing enough to tackle tax evasion and money laundering.

But shouldn’t we be asking, after more than five years, why David Cameron’s government has not done enough to tackle tax evasion and money laundering?

Why do we have a tax gap of anything up to £120 billion a year? Recovering that money would clear the national deficit at a stroke and make huge inroads into the national debt – and it is money that legally belongs to the UK government.

David Cameron and his Chance(llo)r, George Osborne, have been extremely relaxed about collecting it from the fatcat businesses and individuals who can afford to bank their money offshore, preferring instead to lean hard on the poor – and hardest on benefit claimants, one of whom, it has been shown, died because of the policies of Cameron’s government.

Now we’re being given this:

The prime minister took the offshore financial centres to task on Wednesday during a trip to the Caribbean and said not enough progress was being made towards transparency.

Over the past few years, Cameron has repeatedly urged territories such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands to introduce central public registers of company ownership, thereby allowing law enforcement agencies to trace criminals behind firms that are currently anonymous.

This has met fierce resistance among some territories and Grant Shapps, a Foreign Office minister, appeared to backtrack on the UK’s requests for a central register during a trip to the Cayman Islands over the summer.

Is it good enough?

Source: David Cameron says not enough is being done to tackle tax evasion | Business | The Guardian

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An Essex seaside village is the most deprived neighbourhood in England, according to official statistics.

The community east of Jaywick near Clacton-on-Sea has again topped a list that measured deprivation in 32,844 areas across the country, the government report found.

But all of the local authorities with the highest proportion of deprived neighbourhoods are in the north – Middlesbrough, Knowsley, Hull, Liverpool and Manchester.

And of the top 10 neighbourhoods, Blackpool, the ‘Vegas of the North’, has five in the list, and eight in the top 20.

Source: The 10 worst deprived places in England have been revealed – and one features FIVE times – Mirror Online

The original article offers the chance to find out how deprived your own area is, by tapping in your postcode.

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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 every year, a major report that is read and referenced by decision makers in politics and business the world over. This year, the UK slipped from 9th to 10th overall, out of the 140 countries studied.

But if Cameron and Osborne are saying the UK economy is not only in recovery, but the fastest growing economy in the developed world, how can we be slipping down the league tables?

Source: UK economy ranked below Zimbabwe by World Economic Forum, thanks Cameron | Scriptonite Daily

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This one’s a bit tricky to paraphrase, but the argument about the tactics of the Department for Work and Pensions is important.

Please visit and read.

Source: The government need to learn about the link between correlation and causality. Denial of culpability is not good enough. | Politics and Insights

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Is Oxfam really a branch of ‘Socialist International’, as Tories apparently believe?

Beneath the cynical rhetoric of David Cameron’s “big society” there was a proposition. It said to the voluntary sector: we need you. As we cut public spending we hope social provision can – at least to face-saving extent – step in. We will (they implied) cherish you, dish out knighthoods to your top people and invite them to join commissions and parlays.

Suddenly, the Tories turned. Tory MPs such as Priti Patel were encouraged to recruit the media in attacking charity “fat cats”. The cabinet sent the hapless third sector minister, Nick Hurd, to conferences to explain that not only would there be no extra money for charities to pick up the pieces from cuts to councils but they would have to put up with severe reductions in support.

When Chancellor George Osborne proposed cutting tax relief on charity donations, was it an accident or part of some grand design?

It’s been the same story with fundraising, where the NCVO’s Sir Stuart Etherington is proposing complicated new machinery that, even if it is really self-regulation, looks and smells like at least one new quango .

Meanwhile, the government is running a coach and horses through the charitable status of housing associations.

And, a further sign of alienation, charities appear to have been left out of the Osborne devolution agenda.

Source: David Cameron’s love affair with the voluntary sector is over | David Walker | Society | The Guardian

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It seems some Tories, and Tory supporters, are trying to say that Mr Corbyn’s speech was copied in its entirety from material written in the 1980s. That is a lie.

Vox Political is happy to help set the record straight with what follows – courtesy of the BBC.

[Mr Corbyn] said he was “grateful” to former political adviser Richard Heller for submitting wording to include.

But Mr Corbyn said the lines were 350 words out of a 5,000 word speech, which he hoped encompassed the “philosophy” he wants to pursue.

Mr Heller said he was “delighted” his ideas had been used.

Source: Jeremy Corbyn ‘grateful’ for Labour conference speech ideas – BBC News

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The new man in Ms Balandis’s life: In fact, it’s the post office where she receives her benefits, as HMRC should know.

A single mum has had her benefits stopped because the taxman believe she is in a relationship – with her local SHOP.

Debbie Balandis, 40, was shocked to receive a letter from HMRC saying her £140-a-week child tax credits would be stopped because she had a new man, the Daily Record reports.

She immediately called the tax office and was told activity on her bank account showed a Martin McColl – the trading name for her local newsagent chain RS McColl.

Debbie Balandis with the letter from HMRC, accusing her of having an affair with her local post office.

The mum-of-two, from Glagow, tried to explain that she collects benefits from the post office at her local RS McColl and that was why the name appeared on her bank statements.

But she was told her weekly payments were being stopped until she can prove Martin McColl isn’t her live-in lover.

[She said:] “I begged HMRC not to leave me without a penny all because of a fictitious boyfriend.

“But they didn’t believe me and have now stopped my benefits for supposedly having an affair with the post office.”

Source: Single mum has benefits stopped because HMRC thinks local SHOP is her boyfriend – Mirror Online

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