- written by Tom Miller
Uncategorized - - Posted on July, 1 at 11:47 am
Tory Housing shadow Grant Shapps is attacking the Government over mortgage rescue plans for homeowners. He is on record as saying “On the current trend, just 12 families will be helped by this scheme over the two years”. A grim assessment, it seems.
In particular Peterbrough Tory Stuart Jackson has raised in Parliament his concerns over the apparent lack of take up of mortgage rescue relief.
I happen to know that local authorities are tasked with organising the mortgage rescue relief in their areas; Tory Peterborough Council has so far refused to sign up to the programme.
So perhaps Stuart Jackson ought to be scrutinising his own Tory local authority as a priority.
Nationally I’d like to see a list of which local authorities have failed or have been slow to take up the mortgage rescue scheme, and I sincerely hope that this hasn’t been a coordinated Tory plan to rubbish one of Labour’s national policies, when it could be helping people at a very traumatic time.
- written by Michael Meacher
Uncategorized - - Posted on June, 26 at 12:00 pm
There’s nothing like a crisis to throw into sharp relief the contours of the power structure that have long been latent until they burst out into the open under the force of events. It has been a long time since anybody believed that Parliament ran the country or was the final decision-taker in the nation’s [...]
- written by Alex Hilton
Uncategorized - - Posted on June, 25 at 1:18 pm
The “Don’t panic” video showing Young Conservatives in their native habitat posted here yesterday has been suppressed by Youtube after Conservative Future made claim to the copyright.
Youtube has now removed the video, though it is still available on the Don’t Panic site.
Click here to see the video the tories are trying to hide.
- written by Michael Meacher
Uncategorized - - Posted on June, 23 at 11:29 am
The blacking-out redaction of MPs’ expenses on the website, plus the uncertainties remaining over how opaque the Iraq Inquiry will be, are central issues this week in Parliament. They will also be test cases for new Speaker Bercow. But like all examples where concealment is used to hide embarrassment, they are also very revealing about [...]
- written by adamleeder
Uncategorized - - Posted on June, 22 at 11:12 pm
As Speaker Bercow was “dragged” jigging and dancing to the Speaker’s Chair, past Tory hands, folded in a disgruntled manner on middle-aged paunch, it was hard not to think that the Tory front-bench (holding equally thunderous expressions) were missing the brighter side.
Tories rolled eyes and groaned audibly as Bercow - grinning (almost literally it seemed) [...]
