Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Save Prince’s Parade: Protecting our sea front and the adjacent land
This is a brief journey along the canal and the adjacent sea front between Hythe and Seabrook. It is a journey exploring the beauty, singular tranquility and appeal of this area. Seabrook signals the start of Hythe canal and heralds the long meandering line of defence, built to deter Napoleon from landing. The canal (owned by English Heritage), sea front and it's environs change constantly, opening up a world of differing aspects as you walk along and breath in and touch these very special qualities, it is a jewel of nature.
ML
1 Jan 2013
Road Closure Threats
ROAD CLOSURE THREATS
1 Jan 2013
£60,000 A Job – The Shocking Cost of the Work Programme For Sickness Benefit Claimants
Despite the alleged 'payment by results' model much hyped by Iain Duncan Smith, tax payers could have paid out up to £60,000 for every job gained by sickness or disability claimants on the Work Programme.
1 Jan 2013
MSPs hit out at 'shameful' way disabled Remploy workers were axed
LABOUR and the SNP demanded a halt to planned closures until an investigation is carried out in a debate that followed the Record exposing concerns about the axing of the factory in Springburn, Glasgow.
BDC
1 Jan 2013
Atos Healthcare: Still profiting from misery
Whilst the Olympic opening ceremony, quite fairly, glorified our National Health Service, it is nonetheless worth remembering the real state of affairs for a significant number of Britain's sick. In April of this year, around 3400 people in Oxford and 10,000 in the county of Oxfordshire were subsisting on Incapacity Benefit (the allowance for those physically unable to work, which ranges within the modest bounds of £88-£105 weekly. Of that number, roughly two in three were told they were fit to engage in some sort of work. Employment Minister Chris Grayling would hail the figures, calling the current system 'a waste of human life'- supremely ironic given that an average of thirty-two people nationally died every week after failing the new incapacity benefit tests in 2011. Between January and August 2011, 1,100 claimants in the 'work-related activity group' alone died. Clearly, mistakes are being made (and have been made since New Labour let the likes of assessors Atos Healthcare loose on the disabled communit
BNAAD
1 Jan 2013
Sick and disabled braced for enforced work-for-benefits programme
Welfare claimants could be forced to work without pay and be stripped of benefits under scheme starting on Mondaiv Malik
SM
1 Jan 2013