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“‘There is no magic money tree,’ Theresa May said during the election campaign when confronted by a nurse complaining about low pay. Yet now that the Conservatives need the support of the DUP to give them a working majority, suddenly the magic money tree appears: £1 billion of additional spending has been promised to Northern Ireland. Can austerity survive such hypocrisy?”

Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economic Policy, Oxford University, 7 July 2017

Suddenly the magic money tree appears
July 7, 2017 David Clensey Leave a comment
“Do you think it’s fair that the nurses get just a 1% increase year-in year-out regardless of inflation – so they get poorer, so some of them we’re told go to foodbanks? Is that fair? Do you sleep happy at that?”

David Dimbleby questions PM Theresa May, 2 Jun 2017

Nurses using foodbanks
July 3, 2017 David Clensey Leave a comment

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Mrs Thatcher was a signpost. Mrs May appears, so far, to be a weathercock.

See full post: What does Theresa May stand for?

Signposts and Weathercocks
June 21, 2017 David Clensey Leave a comment

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Source: World Wealth and Income Database

The richest 1% in the UK have doubled their share of the nation’s income from 6% in 1979 to 13% in 2012.

From post: Economic reform: government steps up, not back.

UK income share of top 1%
June 21, 2017 David Clensey Leave a comment

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