While some of Leicester’s 51 Labour Council candidates publicly back Jeremy Corbyn and say that if given the opportunity would vote to oppose cuts, the vast majority refuse to do so. Little wonder, then, that when Unison City Branch officially put to them a fighting strategy to stop the cuts in 2017, at that stage […]
Leicester Socialist Party has announced it has selected Steve Score, local campaigner, to stand in May’s Mayoral elections. Steve chaired the successful Save Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre campaign and continues to be involved in local campaigning around defending the NHS. He has a long record in Leicester of fighting government and local cuts in services. […]
We all know the story. Tories are cutting services in the name of austerity. Labour Councils are meekly carrying them out, claiming (incorrectly) that there is nothing they can do. But what is galling is that, three years on since Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, Leicester’s Labour council continues to justify government cut backs […]
Almost 200,000 council homes will go by 2020 if the Tory housing bill passes through parliament. It would force councils to sell one in every eight council properties through the ‘right to buy’ scheme. Over five million people are waiting for social housing in Britain. Since 2010 when the Tory-led Coalition came to power, housebuilding […]
The Tories are planning to kill off council housing altogether. The Housing Bill is just the latest in a long line of attacks on decent, publicly provided, cheap housing. In 1979, 42% of us lived in council homes, now it is just under 8%. This process was not reversed by governments of all three main […]
The Daily Telegraph predicted that 2014 will be another profitable year for homeowners, suggesting that “the spring could be a great time to go for that investment-cum-country-house you have had your eye on.” What a luxury for a privileged few, to be able to snap up another property, sit back and watch the value soar! […]
According the Leicester Mercury, Tory peer Simon Wolfson, who is the chief executive of the Enderby-based retail giant Next, is happy for two reasons. The first owes to the fact that Eleanor, his new wife (of 2012) — who happens to be George Osborne’s economic adviser — has recently given birth to the couple’s first heir […]
Last night local campaigners against the bedroom tax from the Community Unite trade union and the Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation paid a visit to the Labour-run City Council to encourage our political representatives to put their electorates needs before their all-too-willing desire to implement the Con-Dem’s cuts agenda. Hundreds of signatures had been collected from across […]
Yesterday around 50 protesters gathered by the Clock Tower in Leicester to remember those whose have died and those still suffering as a result of the Government’s assault on the vulnerable, most particularly the disabled. A number of people effected by the Government’s assault on the disabled gave moving testimony to the gathered crowd, on […]
Yesterday, on the National Day of Action Against Austerity, protesters descended upon Braunstone estate in Leicester to demonstrate to the Labour Council that they would stand shoulder-to-shoulder to oppose the despised bedroom tax. The event was called as a joint initiative of Unite Community and the Leicestershire Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation in order to put extra […]
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