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 […]
We may not have had local elections in Leicester this year, but the need to provide a political alternative for working class people could not be more relevant. Leicester is run by a Labour-majority city council. People are paying the cost of the bedroom tax and losing vital children’s and community services, while millions have […]
TUSC stood an historic 561 candidates nationwide – the biggest left-of-Labour challenge for 70 years. Our candidates achieved some very good results, despite a media blackout, getting around 1000 votes in St Michaels ward in Coventry, and electing a councillor in Southampton. We also achieved excellent results in Doncaster, Sheffield and London. In total, TUSC’s […]
Hundreds of people rallied together in Leicester on Monday to celebrate May Day, helping strengthen the links between local workers who are determined to unite in the fight-back against all the political parties of cuts. On the same day The Guardian newspaper somehow managed to find the space to write a useful article about the […]
Across England and Wales the Green Party can boast of having 139 local councillors and they are in the favourable position of also being the biggest party on Brighton and Hove City Council. In the latter case, this means that we have the perfect case study to demonstrate what the Green’s will do when at […]
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 […]
David Cameron commented on the recent British floods by saying that “he thought they were probably due to global warming”. While a single incidence of flooding is not in itself evidence of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more and more common – the flooding in the UK has been linked to a cold […]
According to a dull but informative report published in June by Her Majesty’s Treasury, the 2014-15 budget for the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) totaled £26.8 billion: that is £25.6 billion for local government and £1.2 billion for DCLG Communities. This official report, which was penned to justify cuts, then proudly announced that the Government […]
Heather Rawling, “Letter: Braunstone, Leicester,” The Socialist, May 8, 2013. Tessa Warrington, “TUSC builds support in Leicester byelection,” The Socialist, May 15, 2013.
If you want to see what Britain will be like in a few years’ time, if the trend of the Con-Dem’s planned spending cuts, continued wholesale privatisation of our NHS and further erosion of our living standards is not overthrown by mass strike action on the part of the labour movement, then look at Greece. […]
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