Tories took £50 million from Britain’s poorest families in one month
It’s wilful impoverishment of the needy. The Tories have been working hard to force poverty-stricken families further into destitution, clawing …
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Did the DWP’s cruel trick force a man into crime?
I don’t think Carl Poynton’s story is unique. The DWP is supposed to help people survive but since the Tories …
DWP persecutes claimants rather than scammers over ‘industrial scale’ benefit fraud
Only one scammer has been prosecuted by the Department for Work and Pensions in connection with a fraud that has …
Labour lays down the green energy gauntlet with interest-free loan plan for electric cars
While the Tories – and other right-wingers around the globe – are still messing up the planet with fossil fuels, …
Universal Credit loophole that Tories never fixed leads to huge ID theft scam
The government is handing huge wodges of cash to identity thieves because of a loophole in Universal Credit that the …
Universal Credit forces people to borrow from loan sharks
Another scandal from the minds of the Conservative government and the Department for Work and Pensions: Because Universal Credit does …
Why are poor taxpayers being told to subsidise Carillion’s contractors?
It must be lovely, being an executive or shareholder at a big corporation like Carillion – knowing that you can …
Tory concession to young voters is too little and too reluctant
It’s also too obviously focused on the privileged young. The announcement that tuition fees will be frozen is pointless, coming …
Fees and loans have made higher education a perk for the rich
This is what it means to vote Conservative in the UK: It is now impossible to get the education you …
It’s a ‘NO’ from Greece! Decisive rejection of austerity
Alexis Tsipras has gambled and won. Greece has voted decisively to reject the terms of the latest loan offer from …