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Let’s stop subsidising big companies to exploit poor people

Leave a Comment / Conservatives, Economics, Labour, Politics, Poverty, Tax /

Austerity has extracted the last vestiges of “compassion” from conservatism, distilling what remains into policies so poisonously unfair they have led people unable to cope with the bedroom tax to suicide and self-harm, while thousands more are forced to choose between heating and eating. For those who want to see a market-driven economy with a […]

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Tax credits

Working tax credits subsidise big corporations to exploit poor people

Leave a Comment / Labour, Left Unity, Poverty /

Ed Miliband’s summer of silence has been criticised from the left as the perception grows that Labour has failed to provide a coherent and effective alternative to austerity. The standard riposte to those who claim there is little that now separates Labour from the Tories is to say look at the party’s achievements in government:

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