Emblazoned on the front-page of today’s Leicester Mercury is the somewhat inspiring headline “GOOD LORD! Next boss Lord Wolfson is due a £2.4m bonus — but hands it all to his employees.” Tory peer Simon Wolfson, we are told, is pleased to reward his staff for helping the Enderby business become a multi-billion-pound success — […]
When a vicious ruling-class warrior dies, the working class rejoice. But sadly Margaret Thatcher’s vile capitalist legacy lives on; now within even the body politic of the Labour Party, which like the Tories has worked hard to dismantle the NHS. Part of Thatcher’s legacy has recently come to fruition here in Leicester, which recently saw […]
Today on a freezing picket line in Leicester, BBC workers came out on strike to oppose “compulsory redundancies, excessive workloads and bullying and harassment within the corporation.” With union membership growing as a result of recent strike action, members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and BECTU, the UK’s media and entertainment trade union, […]
Here in Leicester Mothers Day descended upon us with sub-zero temperatures and a dusting of snow. For those who can afford to heat their homes such biting weather can be kept at bay, but for increasing numbers of people this is simply not possible. Rent rises combined with the incoming brutal bedroom tax, heaped on […]
All facts and quotes cited in this article have been obtained from the Leicester City Council’s September 2012 Homelessness Review. A longer more detailed version of this article can be found here. The latest Homelessness Review is a sprawling 123 page document which masks the brutal cuts that Labour Councillors are in the process of […]
To mark a new year committed to creating a “world where everyone gets the help they need in a crisis”, the British Red Cross has recruited 2 Sisters Food Group’s chairman Sir Charles Allen as the incoming chairman of their board of trustees. That is the very same man who has attained a certain level […]
On 13 September 2012, Sundip Meghani, the Labour and Co-operative Councillor for Beaumont Leys, brought a motion before the Leicester City Council to raise awareness of the unique contribution made by Ugandan Asians to Leicester’s history. As the son and grandson of Ugandan Asian immigrants who fled to Leicester from Idi Amin in 1972, Councillor […]
“Leicester Miller Education Company Ltd is the Public Private Partnership delivering the circa £300m Building Schools Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in Leicester… Respect for people, communities and the environment is embedded in our culture.” Leicester Miller Education Company Web Site, 2012. All corporations must by law place profit before all other considerations; which […]
“Arriva Transport Solutions and Ambuline: a great partnership.” – Arriva Web Site, 2012. From 1 July 2012 Arriva Transport Solutions and Ambuline Ltd have been providing non-emergency patient transport for Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw — Ambuline being a subsidiary of Arriva, and Arriva itself being a subsidiary of German transport giant Deutsche Bahn. This […]
In recent months the multi-national corporation G4S, formerly known as Group 4 Securicor, has become a household name because of it involvement in the Olympics security debacle, which has further increased public opposition to privatisation. So moving back a few years to July 2009, we might recall that the Leicester Mercury observed that this infamous […]
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