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Tories privatise the nation, as planned. British people take the hit.

The Citizen — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:28:49 +0000

The effects of Tories privatising Britain are starting to hit home, and it’s the people who take the hit, not the rich or the bankers who created the problems.

Well, what did people expect when they voted Tory last year? Were they taken in by the nice green tree in their new logo? No [...]

Scrounging foreigners v. affordable homes for real Londoners

The Editor — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:42:18 +0000

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In one sense I can see what the Tories want to do: end the nonsense of giving taxpayer money to scroungers who are too work-shy to get a job.

In thousands of cases we subsidise, with obscene amounts of our money, those who have arrived in the [...]

The 1984 miners' strike – how things change in 25 years?

The Citizen — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:43:22 +0000

There’s a lot in the news today about the 1984 Miners’ Strike - a milestone in our history that seems like only yesterday. Where did all that time go? How things have changed… or have they? Few British mines and miners any more. Few British steel plants and steel workers. Few British manufacturers and manufacturing [...]

Let's make it an EARLY summer of rage, then?

The Editor — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:15:28 +0000

So we’re told that the police expect a ‘summer of rage’ against spiralling unemployment, bankers and the failure to protect British jobs from immigrants and foreigners.

Well, let’s make it sooner than that and have an early summer this year, shall we?

And while we’re at it, [...]

Record immigration levels and Home Office lies

The Editor — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:07:00 +0000

More than 150,000 foreigners from outside the EU were allowed to work in the UK last year, a figure almost four times higher than when Labour were elected in 1997. Some 151,635 work permit applications were granted between December 2007 and November last year. This is a 17% increase on the 140,600 issued in 2007, [...]

Over 50 and need a job? "Forget it," say recruiters

The Editor — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:21:38 +0000

Those of us who have ever been made redundant at the age of 45 or over will know the situation only too well. Now Channel 4’s exposé of recruiters discriminating against the over-50s has confirmed what we all suspected – that many recruitment agencies claim to have ‘lost’ CVs of more mature candidates when they’ve [...]

7000 British security jobs given to ILLEGAL immigrants

The Editor — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:32:26 +0000

The famous Gordon Brown promise of ‘British jobs for British workers’ somehow doesn’t ring true when it appears that over 7,000 security jobs in Britain – and even in our police force – were actually given to ILLEGAL immigrants approved by the less-than-competent Security Industry Authority.

As if giving the jobs to any [...]

Government notices more foreigners…

The Editor — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:47:22 +0000

You can’t say they’re not on the ball, can you?

‘Communities Secretary’ Hazy McBleary sets out what action the government is taking to manage immigration.

ePolitix reports that this includes a £12m programme of improvements to the way migration data is collected, a fund to help all local services manage the impact of migration, and [...]