2020 April 03

Sunak’s rearranging deckchairs as small business in the UK sinks after hitting the coronavirus iceberg

Posted on April 3 2020

The government has this morning announced reform to the business loan schemes that have, to date, been so hopelessly inadequate. They have noted that: £90
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Why is the bailout so heavily biased to the wealthiest in the UK?

Posted on April 3 2020

I have already mentioned the work Ben Wray is doing as editor of the Source Direct email newsletter from the Commonweal thinktank in Scotland, which
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Debt is a weapon of control

Posted on April 3 2020

Peter May got to this issue quicker than I did yesterday. Peter writes regularly on the a Progressive Pulse blog that I publish. He said
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Answering the question ‘How are you going to pay for it?’

Posted on April 3 2020

I wrote this at the time of the 2017 general election. Nothing much has changed since then. The question remains the same today, as does
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The government has utterly screwed up its support for British business – to add to its list of coronavirus failures

Posted on April 3 2020

What seems like a lifetime ago, but was in fact little more than two weeks back, the Chancellor announced a £330bn bailout plan for British
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Â£55 billion of NHS PFI debt has not been written off: with so much else that now needs to be reformed if the NHS is to serve us into the future

Posted on April 3 2020

The government supposedly wrote off £13.4 billion of NHS debt yesterday. It didn’t: as I have already pointed out, all it did was make a
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