The Compass team, 2015 Feb 24 The two party political system has been in long term decline and since 2010 the UK has seen a surge in popularity of political parties who struggle to break through under the first past the post system. Compass continues to support Proportional Representation to make all votes count. However, …
Mark Page, 2015 Feb 25 Send in the clowns I think I like Russell Brand (without knowing him personally of course). I didn’t much like the juvenile prank played on Andrew Sachs (after all I am a huge Fawlty Towers fan) but, on the other hand, I watched with glee as someone, with both celebrity …
Cambridge Fabian Society, 2015 Feb 20 Cambridge Fabian Society http://www.fabians.org.uk/local-fabians/ cambridgefabiansociety@hotmail.co.uk
Mark Page, 2015 Feb 18 In Britain today, justice is increasingly only available to the rich due to the slashing of legal aid and drastic cuts to the funding of advice services. The Relay for Rights aims to highlight the hypocrisy of the government’s Global Law Summit, celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta …
Mark Page, 2015 Jan 23 The Green Party Citizen’s Income A Citizen’s Income would “replace most existing benefits, allowances and tax credits” and replace them with a simple regular payment to everyone – children, adults and pensioners. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/GRN_uk_manifesto.pdf UK benefit spending: how much in 2011-12? In the year 2011-12, the UK government spent £443bn on …
Mark Page, 2015 Jan 24 Couldn’t help but chuckle as fruit cake Jonathan Arnott, UKIP MEP for the North East of England, explains that the Green Party speaks “weasel words about democracy”. I must admit I have never considered this possibility: an Orwellian state of green totalitarians. Nice one Jono – keep taking the pills! …
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Mark Page, 2015 Feb 04 Want to assess the future prospects of your child? Well, you don’t need to worry too much about your talents, achievements or salary – nor those of the other parent. The talents of said child are not very important either It seems that, due to the fact that social mobility …
Deborah Padfield, 2014 Nov 05 How to survive poverty “I know a young couple, on benefits, with a big expensive pram…” How did they pay for it? Layabouts living it up on benefits? Benefit cheats? They can’t be poor, living like that. These questions were laid before me by a woman (call her Mary) concerned …
Mark Page, 2015 Jan 31 In a ThinkMoney survey, 25% of British adults say they have less than £12 per week to spend after their essential bills are paid. ThinkMoney have also calculated that, for 4.5 million British adults, the figure is less than £3 a week. Across the UK, the average (we assume this …
Stuart Weir, 2015 Jan 30 The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published research showing that the proportion of people living in households with an income below the Minimum Income Standard[1] (MIS) increased by nearly a third between 2008/09 and 2012/13. The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) defines an ‘adequate’ income based on what the public think people …