“It is wrong to expect retailers to bail out the Government’s incoherent tax policies, and we will strongly oppose any move to do so.”
James Lowman, head of the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) worries that low paid workers in retail will may claw back their losses if the government chooses to reform the minimum wage [...]
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Long before Gordon Brown finally became British prime minister after Tony Blair retired from office, I and many others had already drawn potential parallels between Brown and James Callaghan , a previous old Labour prime minister who took over from Harold Wilson when he retired suddenly in 1976.
I’d told myself that Gordon would [...]
Well, it compensates high earners! Give low earners free access to the legal system so they can tackle the prejudice against them. Freedom can be just a question of money. If you have no money and have little chance of getting any extra, to take on the ’system’, them you are just bullied by it. [...]
More checks on benefit scroungers
A call for independent medical boards to be established throughout the the country to examine workshy people who claimed they were unfit for work…
“Fraud and abuse have reached serious levels. This leads to genuine claimants being labelled dishonest or workshy when they are nothing of the sort”
“We are determined to root [...]
Of course the question over Internet censorship proposals by the new Australian government of Kevin Rudd , a policy that would more have been expected of former incumbent John Howard raises similarities between when Tony Blair came to power in Britain after such a long period of conservative rule. It’s taken the Australian Labor [...]
