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Video: UN’s Alston – Tory policies designed to tell most vulnerable “you’re on your own”

16/11/2018by SKWAWKBOX 14 Comments

UN Special Rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, today delivered a damning verdict on the Tory government’s treatment of the UK’s vulnerable people – the disabled, single […]

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OMOV selection, not open selection, wins at NEC – and the ‘pros’ outweigh the ‘cons’

18/09/2018by SKWAWKBOX 27 Comments

This article has been superseded as new information emerged the following morning. For the updated position, see here. After a concerted campaign by Momentum for ‘open selection’ (OS) – the […]

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Labour right goes bananas at NEC result – and provides a lesson for the left

04/09/2018by SKWAWKBOX 17 Comments

Opinion Monday’s outstanding result for the grassroots-left ‘slate’ of candidates – a clean sweep of all nine positions – in the elections for Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) was a […]

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Extraordinary email: “We were delegated to Spellar’s CLP without our permission’ – now suspend it”

12/06/2018by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

The SKWAWKBOX has covered at some length the serious question marks over the practice of Brandhall Labour Club in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell of sending delegates to vote […]

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Vid: May saying Hammond never blamed disabled for productivity – and him saying it

13/12/2017by SKWAWKBOX 18 Comments

In Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon, Green MP Caroline Lucas referred to Chancellor Philip Hammond’s statement to the Treasury Select Committee about the supposed impact of disabled people in the […]

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Video: Heartless Hammond – ‘there are no unemployed people’

19/11/2017by SKWAWKBOX 28 Comments

Useless and out-of-touch Chancellor Phillip Hammond this morning warmed up for this week’s Budget by reminding us all just how useless and out of touch he is. Asked on this […]

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Tory #CutsKill 120,000 people

16/11/2017by SKWAWKBOX 27 Comments

A report by the British Medical Journal published just minutes ago links almost 120,000 ‘excess’ deaths – in England alone and across a period of just seven years – to Tory cuts […]

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Video: Tory conference-goers, security ‘assault protesters’ at JRM event

03/10/2017by SKWAWKBOX 12 Comments

The Tory press carried a story yesterday about ‘angry protesters’ ‘storming’ Jacob Rees-Mogg’s fringe event at the Tory conference in Manchester. That description was shown to be nonsense by footage […]

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Tories’ evil sanction regime in a horrific nutshell

18/09/2017by SKWAWKBOX 41 Comments

The Tories have been censured by the UN for their vile abuse of disabled people and benefit claimants – not a fact that you will see much mentioned in the […]

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Important: WRAG/sanction – don’t panic yet

17/07/2017by SKWAWKBOX 19 Comments

Earlier today the SKWAWKBOX published an article about the application of the Universal Credit (UC) ‘claimant commitment’ to disabled people. That article was based on information from a recent DWP […]

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