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Video: working-class foodbank activists describe hardship and shame they see inflicted on poor and vulnerable

05/12/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 23 Comments

Proud but desperate families pushed to the brink are relying on all of us to vote for change The working-class founders of the Fans Supporting Foodbanks (FSF) initiative spoke to […]

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Labour: Boris Johnson lied outright about hungry children. Here’s how we will lift them out of poverty

02/12/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 32 Comments

Tory leader lied outright on BBC’s Marr show, claiming 400,000 decrease in child poverty when it has risen by half a million Boris Johnson has lied about one of the […]

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McDonnell to join McDonalds workers’ in Downing Street low pay protest

12/11/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 33 Comments

Shadow Chancellor will join McDonalds workers again today Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell will today join a protest at 10 Downing Street by McDonald’s fast food workers demanding decent wages, job […]

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Narrative for next Labour coup attempt underway. It will fail – but risks damaging millions

21/05/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 106 Comments

Re-run of post-2016 referendum ‘chicken coup’ taking shape – as deluded and misleading as it was three years ago. But it will spit in face of UK’s suffering millions Comment […]

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List of Tory ‘achievements’ makes horrifying reading

12/03/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 10 Comments

The blight of Tory government on the UK and its people in a few short bullet points As the government prepares for the Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’, a list of Tory […]

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The gaping holes in Watson’s leaked document speak volumes. So does what’s in

12/03/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 27 Comments

Tom Watson’s Future Britain ‘party within a party’ launch document leaked within minutes of its first meeting on Monday evening – a stellar start. But it has huge gaping hole […]

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Audio: teacher tells R5 “my pupil was eating plasticine, he was that hungry”

08/02/2018by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 7 Comments

BBC Radio Five Live today carried a segment on poverty. The first caller to the show related a shocking, real-life example of the levels of poverty and desperation some people […]

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Video: Pow! Tory MP claims we’ve never had it so good. McDonnell responds

23/11/2017by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 14 Comments

Somerset Tory MP Rebecca Pow thinks we’ve never had it so good. She said so in the House of Commons this morning. Ms Pow regaled MPs with a tale of […]

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