Iain Duncan Smith's conference speech: same old song, same bum notes
The Conservative Party conference reached its own squeezed middle yesterday, as Iain Duncan Smith was hidden away in the Tuesday graveyard shift with his unfounded boasts of 'compassion' and...
View ArticleUnemployment fall ends months of rises and pay improves
Unemployment has seen a surprise fall of 79,000 in the last three months, bringing an end to a series of rises.At 1.77 million or 5.4% of the working population the number out of work is at a...
View ArticleTory tax credit rebels forget to rebel
Monday's parliamentary debate on tax credits saw some heartfelt contributions from all parties.None were perhaps as surprising as those from Tory MPs who tried to warn Chancellor George Osborne and PM...
View ArticleScotland proves welfare reform doesn't help people into work
One of Iain Duncan Smith's favourite policies has been exposed again for the poverty-creating travesty it is.After falling back on his 'belief' that the benefit cap forced people into work to justify...
View ArticleMore opposition to tax credit cuts - but slowing them down does little
There has been a huge amount of opposition to Chancellor George Osborne's proposed tax credit cuts.This has come from charities, campaigners, opposition parties including Labour, Lib Dem, SNP and Plaid...
View ArticleAutumn Statement - don't celebrate tax credit reversal just yet
The Autumn Statement provides a second bite of the cherry for a Chancellor to clear up the mistakes they made in their budget earlier in the year.Yesterday's gave George Osborne the chance to atone for...
View ArticleWork capability assessent death apology won't change anything
When Tim Salter killed himself in 2013 after being found fit for work by the government's hated work capability assessment (WCA), he risked becoming part of a mass of statistical information which took...
View ArticleShocking wage growth shows pain is shared by working and workless poor
New research by the Labour Party shows that wage growth will be lower in the Tory decade than at any time since the 1920s.House of Commons research took the Office for Budget Responsibility's estimate...
View ArticleFurther falls in unemployment but wage and claimant numbers disappoint
The last three months of 2015 saw most recent employment trends continue, with 205,000 more people in work and a rate of 74.1%, the highest since records began in 1971.Unemployment was also down by...
View ArticleUnemployment rises as referendum uncertainty holds back hiring
UK unemployment has risen by 21,000 to 1.7 million over the three months to February, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed.This is the first rise since July last year, confirming that...
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