‘A social wrong as great as the poll tax’
by Sandra Webster · April: a time of rebirth of new opportunities. Our government is using the Brexit debates to hide some very bad news and ridiculous payments to those with the most need. Surely ...
Universal Credit
The New Victorians: tinned tuna and Tory grandees
by Sandra Webster • At our branch last night, we had a discussion about Dickens and his reasons for writing A Christmas Carol. This book was written just at the time Queen Victoria’s marriage to ...
A hurricane with no shelter for people with disabilities
Sandra Webster warns of the looming cruelties of Universal Credit • When big business is saying that this Tory Government are no longer the party of big business and reminiscing about the ...
Protecting the most vulnerable… Tory style
by Sandra Webster • The mantra of the caring, sharing Tory party is “We will protect the most vulnerable.” It was banged out during the last general election campaign at regular intervals. ...
The first cuts were not the deepest
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson While all other parties promised at least to slow down the rate of austerity, and while the SSP’s manifesto was a people’s one, at the heart of the ...
Let’s target the real scroungers
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson In the lead up to the referendum vote, the future of the welfare state was one of the issues referred to by the Scottish Government. Nicola Sturgeon ...
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