We're all in this together

A bit like the House of Lords?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/huge-police-investigation-launched-house-4695866

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/09/revealed-wealth-gap-oecd-report

Nothing new here, but it seems it still hasn't been said often enough ...

Well that's a surprise

Prime Minister David Cameron’s big society agenda has largely failed and has left the voluntary sector weakened rather than strengthened, according to a report from the think tank Civil Exchange.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04xw2x8/the-superrich-and-us-episode-1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04yn2yq/the-superrich-and-us-episode-2

No way, and he was so sure it was going to work.

Poor David, it must come as a crushing diappointment to him.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/19/global-wealth-oxfam-inequality-davos-economic-summit-switzerland

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/100m-condo-sale-breaks-city-record-article-1.2081765

We're all in our safe, warm, comfortable flats together, since, after all, the Government's supremely enlightened and not at all ideologically-corrupted economic policies haven't made anyone homeless.

Oh, wait ...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/number-of-people-sleeping-rough-in-london-goes-up-by-a-third-official-figures-show-10074245.html

We're all in the NHS together.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/03/rise-of-diy-dentistry-britons-doing-own-fillings-to-avoid-nhs-bill

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/may/01/schools-providing-435m-of-extra-support-to-children-due-to-cuts-poll

When Condomface mentioned 'shared sacrifice' last night without being howled down, I switched off the radio.

Someone tell me whether to vote Labour or Green.
Labour's failure to set an agenda and speak to voters like grown-ups disgusts me. They know austerity is bad economics but they're afraid to say it out loud (Why, I don't know. I think because they believe they'd be shouted down by the tory press. But I also worry they think the electorate's too dumb to get it.)
But are the Greens an organised force in politics or just a bunch of nice people with a collection of nice ideas?

Fintan, vote Labour or Green.

But are the Greens an organised force in politics or just a bunch of nice people with a collection of nice ideas?

The Greens are a democratic party with policies proposed and voted upon by the membership and a leadership elected by the membership.

Hence a well-meaning nice-but-dim Aussie who can't keep up with her homework. Shame Caroline Lucas was too busy being an MP to continue as leader.

Vote Labour if you're in a Labour swing seat, and Green if you're anywhere else?

http://voteswap.org/

Yup. Southwark. I think that's what I'm gonna do.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/24/middle-class-living-standards

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/27/labour-funding-hit-change-political-levy-bill

Don't suppose they'll be proposing a hedge fund bill to go alongside this then?

I think they're still hedging their bets on that one.

Pretty impressive banner here:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/30/protests-anti-austerity-london-cuts-westminster-government

I imagine that they chalked out the letters elsewhere and then got people to fill them in once on site? It could be a way of rushing it out by having more banner painters and not having to let it dry.

For anyone who hasn't heard about it yet, there'll be a big protest on June 20th:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/04/charlotte-church-pay-70-percent-tax-to-protect-public-services

i think C.Church is F.Antastic. Her getting attacked for NOT being a money obsessed, venal, tax dodging fuck like most celebs who support the Tories, just makes her point all the more salient.