Friday, 5 June 2015

A 10% pay rise to £74,000 for MPs?! It's not even a full time job for some

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Fee and KJ find a way to make it work for all of us... SOURCE  DAILY MAIL : David Cameron has dropped plans to block 10% (£7,000) rise ...
Thursday, 4 June 2015

Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 4th June)

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Child benefit STAYS while I'm PM: Cameron slaps down Iain Duncan Smith plan to limit hand-out to two children Number 10 said the Pr...
Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Since 1966 the governing party has never got more than a third of the total electorate's votes

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ELECTION RESULTS SINCE 1946 ELECTORAL REFORM SOCIETY : If You Felt Like Your Vote Didn't Count for Much on 7 May, You're N...
Sunday, 31 May 2015

Lest We Forget: Parliament waited until after the 2015 General Election to confirm they would pocket their bumper payrise. What else did they forget to tell us before we voted in May 2015?

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In December 2013 the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) gave MPs a pay rise to £74,000 per year starting from immedi...
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Thursday, 28 May 2015

Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 28th May)

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David Cameron has dropped plans to block 10% (£7,000) rise in MPs' salaries The Prime Minister described the plan as ‘totally unacc...
Sunday, 24 May 2015

Graphs at a glance: UK wage inequality is the highest in the EU. The gender pay gap in the UK is the second highest. Coincidence?

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High pay and privileges is about the powerful helping themselves. Bosses deciding that they deserve more (pay & perks) for working h...
Friday, 22 May 2015

Why is UK productivity flatlining? Start by blaming flatlining wages

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Chris tries to get answers from one of our "captains of industry"... SOURCE BBC NEWS : Osborne says low productivity key eco...
Thursday, 21 May 2015

Rip-off News round-up. Our pick of the last week's media (Thu 21st May)

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Record $5.7bn (£3.6bn) fines for currency market fix: UBS, JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup and RBS US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said...
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Labour to shift right?! That’ll lose even more votes of the “left” and the “left behind”

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The Tory majority hides what happened when you count individual votes. The Tory rise of 0.8% was less (apart from the LibDems, of cours...
Saturday, 16 May 2015

Labour must not fight a 'Class War', because there are more Lefties in the ABC1 than in the C2DE classes

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" Lions led by donkeys " was an assessment of the qualities of senior officers and the rest of the troops in the British Army ...
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