Cunning Miliband?
Ed Miliband has made some smart moves when it comes to spinning the Coalition… Early last year, only months after he was elected leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband engaged in a cunning little piece of politics. The Labour Party stopped describing this government as a “coalition” and blaming the Lib Dems [...]
Will the Liberal Democrats be wiped out at the next general election? After the Budget last week, Nick Clegg and his Lib Dems may be at their most content since the beginning of the Coalition government. The increase in income tax allowance and a Tory u-turn on tighter child benefit payouts both imply [...]
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Coalition decision on minimum wage for young people might not be such a bad idea… Businesses are, rather obviously, responsive to the costs of employing labour. This is why wage rates play such a pivotal role in the functioning of an economy. In an attempt to encourage firms to take on more young [...]
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The Work Programme alone cannot solve Britain’s unemployment crisis… The Work Programme is the Government’s flagship ‘welfare to work’ policy. It has now been in place for roughly 9 months and results thus far illustrate some progress but not enough. One in five people on the Programme have subsequently gone on to find [...]
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Prime Minister’s Questions is more about the spectacle than the politics… I often tape Prime Minister’s Question time when it is on the telly, to watch at a convenient time. Is this strange? I don’t mean the actual practice of recording a bit of TV to watch later, after all, nowadays it is quite [...]
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The Coalition’s education policies will do nothing for those being ‘left behind’… Throughout the coalition government’s term so far there has been one topic that has consistently received media coverage and divided opinion; their education policies. Academies and free schools, Gove wanting bibles to be sent to every school and the revamping of [...]
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Government plans to push on with reforms in face of opposition… Despite defeat in the House of Lords, this week Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has reasserted the government’s determination to see through the Welfare Reform Bill. The bill which looks to cap the benefits received by households across the country to £26,000 [...]
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The Coalition’s tax cuts for married couples just don’t add up… One in three unmarried couples split up before their child is five, compared to only one in 11 married couples, children are more socially responsible with married parents and single parents are more likely to need welfare benefits. Thus runs Conservative logic [...]
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