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Take a look at the ‘blame game’
If you’re blaming a scapegoat you’re not blaming the people with the real power… On the morning of 16 June 2016, just a few hours before Labour MP Jo Cox was brutally murdered, Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in South Yorkshire where he attacked the “blame game” being played by the Right in the referendum campaign. This is what he said: Thank you for inviting me here to South...
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Conservative election spending questioned
Conservative Party taken to court amid claims that it breached spending rules. The Conservative Party has had to be taken to court by the election watchdog amid claims that it breached spending rules at recent by-elections and the General Election in 2015. The watchdog – the Electoral Commission – had to apply to the high court for a document and information disclosure order after party chiefs failed to provide the details requested, the Guardian reported recently. And to date nine...
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Pensions, discrimination, poverty: petition
Women born in the 1950s face severe financial hardship over pension discrimination. Changes imposed on pensions for women born in the 1950s have been called unfair and discriminatory. And a petition set up to draw attention to this and calling for change has been presented to HMRC – but is still open for signing. The problems have come about through a combination of the increase in state pension age and the fact that no sufficient notice was given to the women in this age group to enable them...
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