After squeaking through her Brexit bill this evening in which she fended off a rebellion by the hard-Brexit fringe of her party by surrendering completely to their demands and then […]
They say a week is a long time in politics. It seems five days is a very long time in the life of politician Tom Watson. Just last Tuesday, Watson […]
Comment In spite of Labour’s General Election surge and its continued polling strength – not to mention more than thirty u-turns Labour under Corbyn had already forced from the Tories before […]
The SKWAWKBOX has covered the strike by Birmingham City Council (BCC) refuse workers at some length, as staff fought against an unprincipled attack on their salaries and conditions – and […]
Labour MP Chris Williamson’s ‘Week in Westminster’ video series continues with a hard-hitting ‘piece to camera’ in which he lays into the Tories for yet more u-turns, their weakness and […]
Chris Williamson’s latest video in his ‘Week in Westminster’ series is a beaut – and he had plenty to work with. In his latest effort, Chris talks to protesting public […]
Around 6 million British Gas customers are reeling today after Centrica, the owner of British Gas, announced that the utility would be increasing its electricity prices by a staggering 12.5%. Centrica […]
The SKWAWKBOX looked earlier at Theresa May’s supposed ‘U-turn’ on the ‘dementia tax’ and concluded that it’s all a con – nothing has changed, except for a meaningless ‘promise’ to […]
As a commenter on the excellent Vox Political site observed yesterday, the Tories ‘dementia tax’ proposals to force elderly people to pay for all their care from the value of […]
News has just broken that Theresa May has screeched into an embarrassing, hand-brake U-turn over her ‘dementia tax’ plans to penalise older people who need care by making them pay […]