UK Austerity Nation

Ed Miliband’s commitment today to set out concrete policy steps in this next year is certainly needed.   But the really essential point is t...

Official figures released today showed that Britain is the most unequal country in Europe. And the Office for National Statistics analys...

Labour leader's message challenges the stereotype of the welfare 'scrounger'. The first big political event of the new yea...

A “VULNERABLE’’ disabled man who took his own life felt pressurised by changes to the benefits system, says his partner. Christine Gra...

The truth of the Jubilee ‘volunteers’ – unemployed people on the disgraceful Workfare scheme, bussed into London under darkness and orde...

A firm which was set up by two Tory donors and won contracts worth £73m from the coalition government to find work for unemployed people has...

   Unite the Fights Black Triangle Campaign will be attending an initial planning meeting on Saturday the 12th of January 2013 in ...

GARY STIRLING sat down to a Christmas dinner of macaroni and chocolate after his benefits were stopped following new government guidlines....

"You, David Cameron, Will go to Hell"   From Katy Anchant Dear Mr Cameron,...

The Community Action Party campaign to oppose welfare reform has so far received the backing of tens of thousands of people throughout ...

Cruel government cuts could see severely disabled people forced to celebrate Christmas away from home following the abolition of a key sour...

The emergency food providers estimated 15,000 would be seeking help – almost double last year’s figure of 8,454 Record numbers of peopl...

More than 35,000 ambulances have been forced to wait more than 30 minutes outside a hospital in just the last six weeks  Care: But ...

Peers may revolt over changes in eligibility for Motability cars  Remember those rebellions in the Lords on welfare earlier this year? ...

Pensioners are being sent to care homes in Eastern Europe and Asia in an austerity move dismissed as 'inhumane deportation' This is ...

Didn’t anybody else notice the flaw in the Queen’s Christmas message? In it, she pointedly praised the volunteers who stewarded the Diamon...

As much as £2.8million is owed by sufferers to heating companies in the UK Three in ten said that they have had to turn off the heating in...

An intriguing question found me looking over what National Insurance pays for but low and behold it led to another of greater importance b...

Courage, me hearties, people have survived and beaten oppressive governments before: Or watch the entire film: Playli...

’twas christmas day in the workhouse, the pudding came in view, the raisins, they were many, the currants, they were few, up spake a brav...

 

Some much needed Christmas good news has come from the DWP of all places with the announcement that next year’s benefit cap is to be dela...

Originally submitted by George Washington to ZeroHedge. Before you even think that the below is just happening in America, open your eyes...

From Ekklesia As Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith probably has more influence over the lives of the least fortu...