Labour MP @GrahameMorris slams the Tory attack on “Workers’ Rights”.</h1> <article> <h1>Labour MP @GrahameMorris slams the Tory attack on “Workers’ Rights”.</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:46:19 +0000</p> The UK economy triple dip recession near miss will do little to instil business and consumer confidence, the catalysis we need for growth, as we experience the slowest economic recovery for over 100 years. The Government’s assault on employment rights, initiating a “race to the bottom” in relation to wages, terms and conditions is a<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=v9ZBfHzutV4:wrugzQFjXeU:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>10 ways to fix the NHS. Article by @DrEoinCl</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:39:53 +0000</p> 1. Halt all ongoing tendering processes in the NHS occurring under AQP. 2. Let existing contracts with private firms lapse with no re-tendering inviting private health to occur. 3. Offer private firms “get out clauses” to end existing contracts early. 4. Hold each private firm to the Agreed Value of their existing contract (most go over-budget). 5. Make the existing NHS Providers “Preferred<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=YwMYWguOvG0:5M3RyhZtjaQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Ed Miliband lays out 6 Parliamentary Acts he’d have in a Labour “Queen’s Speech”.</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:38:30 +0000</p> Ed Miliband yesterday out six of the key economic Bills that would appear in a Labour Queen’s Speech next week: a One Nation programme with new ideas to begin turning Britain’s economy around. Labour’s economic plans include: • A Jobs Bill to put in place a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee. • A Finance Bill that would<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=u89d4BZMUy4:ERQndj1B-Co:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Thatcherism was no miracle, it was a nightmare sent from hell. Article by @GrahameMorris</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:32:02 +0000</p> In recent weeks the Thatcher legacy has been fiercely debated. There are those such as the Prime Minister who claim “We are all Thatcherites now”, or Nigel Farage who believes that UKIP are the true party of Thatcher. While they are battling it out for whom should have claim to the Thatcher legacy, many in<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=ARA57XPrZ3M:tpFQ24kQzBY:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Exposed: How the Tory run Welfare Department is intimidating the most vulnerable in our society by @SKWalker1964</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:04:08 +0000</p> For background information regarding the shenanigans going on at the DWP, I suggest you take a quick peek at some of the articles detailed below: an article about ‘Maggie‘, a 29 year-old unemployed, semi-literate woman in my home town and the psychological torture inflicted on her and others like her by Jobcentre Plus (JCP) on<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=3kOKNpbXbzA:vvtFR6Z9PUs:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Ask MPs to sign EDM 1160 – A NATIONAL ENERGY CORPORATION</h1> <p>Brian Moylan — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:32:26 +0000</p> The tool above can be used to send the following email message to MPs: “Please sign EDM 1160 – A NATIONAL ENERGY CORPORATION I strongly believe that Britain’s energy industry should be returned to public ownership. Since the energy utilities were privatised, we have seen energy prices increase year after year, with no concern for<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=HKXpSv0MYDA:oJsrJVZSo3A:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Obsessing over “debt reduction” is wrong, wrong and wrong argues @RichardJMurphy.</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:46:03 +0000</p> Two economists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Robert Pollin and Michael Ash,have written in the FT today, saying: In 2010, two Harvard economists published an academic paper that spoke to the world’s biggest policy question: should we cut public spending to control the deficit or use the state to rekindle economic growth? “Growth in a Time of<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=c4mLqxoxl8w:XGl9xDrnHyc:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>#Heartless: Thatcher’s answer to fuel poverty among our elderly was to tell them to “Put on a Woolly Hat” by @RobertaBWMP</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:18 +0000</p> By Roberta Blackman-Woods MP for Durham Last Wednesday, I did not attend the recall of parliament to pay tribute to the former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher. The decision to bring MPs back from the Easter recess also came at a great expense to the taxpayer. I represent an area and communities that were decimated<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=Pp_4CixEOms:l2e0rUV_S00:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>NHS Crisis Looms: just 6 days to halt the “forced” privatisation of our NHS by @KailashChandOBE (please share)</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:01:11 +0000</p> Last month the UK government released its amended regulations on NHS procurement after considerable outrage from health organisations, trade unions, and parliamentarians, over what appeared to be clear breaches of agreements. Is it a merely a cosmetic re-write of regulation 75 again that seeks merely to better disguise the true privatising aim of these regulations, or<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=RN3LhJ-9Sgc:DROo4jWVa8g:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>We’ll Shed No Tear For Thatcher Here: A Tale of 2 Countries by @GrahameMorris</h1> <p>Eoin Clarke — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:14:10 +0000</p> The image of Baroness Thatcher projected by the Establishment as a leader loved at home and honoured abroad is for many not a true reflection of history or the bitterness that she evokes for those who were her victims. The millions who were cast onto the dole queues and the communities destroyed during Margaret Thatcher’s<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/labourleft?a=FHa1AABOMIE:TXSzMHB-3SI:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> </div> </article> </main></body></html>