Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Cracks are starting to show over fairness


Budget will hit poor harder than rich, according to IFS report

Thinktank challenges claim of 'tough but fair' measures and predicts poorer families will suffer in second half of parliament

The Tories do not care about the vunrable of society and the LibDems are finding it hard to share the bed! It's simple Tory policy is to subdue the lowest on the ladder, trim back the middle and extend the top rungs further! Tory ideolgy is that the rich desreve and poor should know their place and beg!

The problem that the LibDems have is that if they pull out they will be seen to have failed again.



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Monday, June 21, 2010

United for Action - Day of Dissent on 21 June Joint FE and HE Protest


United for Action - Day of Dissent on 21 June Joint FE and HE Protest
Date: Monday, 21 June 2010
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Victoria Gardens (Out side the Art Gallery
Street: The Headrow
Town/City: Leeds, United Kingdom


Description
Stop the cuts: join the coalition to defend education
Day of action: 21 June 2010
Education is under attack.

* Over £1bn has been cut from higher education budgets over the next three years.
* Thousands of jobs already gone.
* Thousands more at risk.
* For the first time in decades our education system is shrinking and the barriers to access are rising.
* Current and future generations are at risk of being locked out of our education system.

Staff and students have united in an unprecedented sector-wide coalition
to oppose the cuts.

ATL, GMB, EIS, NUS, UCU, UNITE and UNISON have joined forces to defend education.

Monday, June 07, 2010

ConDems lastest lies!

ConDems lastest lies to let the Private sector banks off the hook and drain the Public Sector to sustain the greed of the few at the expense of the many roll on the Prince Cameron and the Nick the Sheriff of Sheffield. Time for the Robin Hood Tax the lot of them!!!