Paradise Papers:
Queen and Bono kept money in offshore funds, leaked files reveal
The Queen, Bono and one of Donald Trump's closest advisors
are among those whose offshore investments have been revealed in the largest
ever leak dubbed the "Paradise Papers". The 13.4million files, which
were obtained after a hack on law firm Appleby which has offices in Bermuda,
the Isle of Man and a number of other tax havens, show the complex financial
dealings of the super-rich and major
global corporations. Tory donor Lord Michael Ashcroft, Donald...
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Paradise Papers: Queen and Bono kept money in offshore funds, leaked files reveal
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EYE OPENER: The Top 1% are paying more income tax? Because their income has doubled since 1995 while the bottom 90%'s has stagnated
Half of us are borrowing to cover living costs. Since the 1980s the poorest fifth have been borrowing more and more
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Monday, 6 November 2017
Sunday, 1 October 2017
Supermarket chicken
supplier 2 Sisters suspends operations
It comes after allegations that workers had changed
slaughter dates to extend the shelf life of meat. The Food Standards Agency
(FSA) has also been investigating the claims. The Guardian and ITV News claimed
an undercover reporter witnessed workers changing the "kill dates" on
chickens. They also allegedly saw meat of different ages being mixed together
and codes on crates of meat altered. In a statement, the company said an internal
investigation had shown "some isolated instances...
Sunday, 17 September 2017
Writing off student
debt can cost £10bn, not £100bn, says IFS
The figures are well below the £100bn quoted by the
universities minister, Jo Johnson, and other members of the government this
year as they sought to push back against suggestions by the Labour leader,
Jeremy Corbyn, that his party would end tuition fees and “deal with” existing
student debts. As the IFS pointed out, the £100bn is the total for all
student loans, including those for maintenance, for students from outside
England, and for those incurred after fees were introduced...
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
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Labels: Austerity, budget cuts, education, housing, inequality, NHS, police, property, taxation
OUR RELATED STORIES:
£100bn a year is missing from our high streets thanks to 50 years of pay squeezes
Why does everyone say inequality is falling, when it's rising? Because they're only counting incomes, not all wealth (property, pensions, etc.)
The NHS is not a “cost”. It creates nationwide jobs, technology, growth and wealth. Oh, and health
FTSE bosses take 2.5 days to earn what you earn all year. Data shows they don't deserve it
All governments agree to fix the housing crisis. Latest figures show we're still not even trying
Recovery?...
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Jeremy Hunt quizzed
over why nurses are using foodbanks
The Health Secretary was interviewed on the BBC's Andrew
Marr Show after Theresa May said last week there "many complex
reasons" why nurses are increasingly turning to the charitable centres. It
comes after the Royal College of Nursing claimed that nurses are seeking debt
advice and increasingly turning to food banks. Mr Hunt said: "The minimum
a nurse can be paid in this country is £22,000 - £27,000 in inner London. The
average pay was £31,000. Is that enough considering the brilliant...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
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Labels: Austerity, budget cuts, education, elections, inequality, jobs, NHS, pay, police, public sector, Tories
Fee and KJ hazard a guess...
SOURCE PUBLIC SECTOR EXECUTIVE: Lib Dems join Labour in pledge to scrap
1% public sector pay cap
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has pledged to put an end
to the government’s 1% public sector pay cap and uprate wages in line with
inflation, a commitment that is in line with Labour’s pledges according to its
leaked manifesto. Farron, who accused the Conservatives of treating health
workers “like dirt” at yesterday’s Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual
conference, said nurses and teachers could be £780 better...
Saturday, 13 May 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
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Labels: Austerity, benefits, Big Society, Brexit, budget cuts, elections, immigration, inequality, jobs, pay, unions
A pound’s worth of product is not worth a pound when you’ve
made it. It’s worth a pound when someone has bought it. That’s why Britain
needs a pay rise.
There’s no rise in UK sales without a rise in UK incomes.
That’s why we’ve not had a recovery. Only a recovery in credit card debt!
Whichever party understands that, vote for them.
Wages have flatlined since July 2005, says the Office for
National Statistics. But it’s worse than that. Notoriously, the Average Weekly
Earnings (AWE) data never include the earnings of the self employed,...
Thursday, 27 April 2017
3m poor working families
face losing £2,500 a year from benefit cuts
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) the
freeze in benefit rates and cuts to child tax credit, coupled with the rollout
of universal credit, which has become less generous as a result of changes to
work allowances, signal “large losses” for low-income households. If the cuts
announced in 2015 were fully in place now, nearly 3m working households with
children on tax credits would be an average of £2,500 a year worse off, with
larger families losing more. The...
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