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12 Jan 2012

Welfare Reform Bill: Key issues for disabled and sick people

The extraordinary triple victory on specific benefit issues in the House of Lords on 11 January 2012 has raised questions for a number of people about the larger situation regarding the Welfare Reform Bill. Some of the bill might be helpful, but I want to be very clear today about which parts sick and disabled campaigners know to be unacceptable - and why.
12 Jan 2012

Campaign against disability and welfare cuts steps up

Buoyed by a stunning victory in the House of Lords, disabled rights activists and their supporters are pledging to step up the campaign for welfare justice.
11 Jan 2012

Disability campaigners rejoice at huge defeat for government on welfare cuts

The government has suffered an extraordinary threefold defeat on its Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Lords, as campaigners and peers combined to oppose cuts.
5 Jan 2012

Grim predictions for UK family finances up to 2015 as cuts bite

New evidence from the Institute for Fiscal Studies for the Family and Parenting Institute shows government policies and cuts hitting vulnerable families hard.
31 Dec 2011

A bumpy political ride in 2012

The political ride in Britain, in Europe and more widely is set to get bumpier, sometimes alarming, and never less than fascinating, says Simon Barrow. But the key question remains: who does (and who should?) call the shots in shaping the capacity of our key institutions both to respond to popular pressures and to ride the economic tiger?
14 Dec 2011

Important petition against disability and welfare cuts

Attacks on benefits and services are nothing new, but the situation has now become a crisis, as the latest vote in the House of Lords (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/15900) illustrates. But now is not the time to give up.
14 Dec 2011

Lords vote to slash benefits for disabled children

An amendment to protect the benefits of disabled children once Universal Credit is introduced has been defeated in the House of Lords.
10 Dec 2011

Neither austerity nor City exemptions will do, say Cameron's critics

The PM's decision to veto EU treaty reform on financial regulation and fiscal consolidation has drawn huge criticism, but so have some Euro proposals.
1 Dec 2011

Tens of thousands join protests against government policies

Two-thirds of schools and thousands of agencies shut down yesterday as over 2 million workers joined 'the biggest strike in a generation', according to organisers.
29 Nov 2011

Day of Action to target austerity and cuts as well as pensions robbery

Wednesday 30 November will see the first mass strike across Britain for four decades, as public sector workers protest against pension cuts.

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