By Mark Gawthorpe, Leicester Socialist Party Wordsworth House, a Leicester homeless hostel which I was a resident of for just over a year, has lost its council funding and the right to house council homeless clients. This is because of new council funding rules supposedly designed to combat discrimination. To continue receiving funding Wordsworth House […]
“You make a really good point about the disabled… There is a group – and I know exactly who you mean – where actually, as you say, they’re not worth the full wage…” — Lord Freud at a Tory conference fringe meeting How much is a disabled person worth? According to Tory welfare minister Lord Freud […]
In Leicester we’ve spent £4 million on the Richard III centre, with a grand total of 14 jobs created… for which 400 people applied. Our illustrious mayor finds this “fascinating” and reckons this is down to it being an “interesting place to work”, according to the Leicester Mercury. Well, maybe it will be… The new […]
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