‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson
SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...
Grenfell fury over new ‘fire risk’ skyscraper! – 40% of cladded buildings still unsafe
THE GRENFELL community spoke out in furious anger yesterday that a building almost two and a half times taller then the Grenfell Tower is...
Tory programme of attacks on working class!
THE TORY programme of 38 pieces of anti-working class legislation which the government plans during the current parliamentary session was outlined in the Queen’s...
Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!
STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...
Five Days Of Strike Action At Metroline
LONDON bus operator Metroline’s decision not to permanently drop its controversial ‘remote sign-on’ policy will lead to five days of strike action that will...
Unite Claims Rolls Royce Jobs Victory!
THE long-running campaign to secure the future of the historic Rolls-Royce factory of Barnoldswick in Lancashire has finally ended. Following a ballot the workers at...
Energy Bills Are To Rise By 54%!
THE AVERAGE household’s energy bill will rise by £693 annually after a 54% increase to the price cap announced yesterday which will undoubtedly plunge...
University wages strike ballots
UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. The ballot opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday...
Thompson Out! Chant 17,000 Striking Postal Workers!
‘THOMPSON out!’ chanted 17,000 striking Royal Mail postal workers at a rally in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon. They were expressing their anger at the company’s...
Tories withdraw infection control fund today!
TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...
‘A KICK IN THE TEETH FOR PASSENGERS!’ – TSSA condemns above inflation fare...
TSSA rail union General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has rounded on the Government over plans for an inflation-busting rail fares increase in England next year...
Johnson Mortally Wounded In Confidence Vote
TORY PM Boris Johnson was mortally wounded in the no confidence vote in parliament last night, with 40% of Tory MPs voting against his...
Tories slash another £250m from social care!
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis
THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...
ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford
THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...
NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’
HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...
Corbyn demands permanent Customs Union
‘ONE area that the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and I do not agree,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in the House of...
Time to disband scandal ridden Met police force
DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...
‘SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UK!’ – demand 30 top trade union leaders
REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...
‘Massive building safety crisis in UK!’ – says FBU after classroom ceiling collapse
PUPILS were quickly ushered out of Rosemead Preparatory School in Dulwich, south London, yesterday morning after a classroom ceiling collapsed. The London Fire Brigade (LFB)...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
Patel responds to drownings by stepping up her attacks on refugees
IN RESPONSE to the drowning of 27 people in the Channel on Wednesday, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday pushed her Nationality and Borders...
Labour Calls For An Emergency Budget!
LABOUR is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward measures to tackle the cost of living crisis as inflation soars to a 30-year...
‘Prosecute now’ demand Grenfell campaigners
MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...
Over 500,000 Public Sector Workers Strike
OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...
TUC denied seat at Tories trade table
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...
Enthusiastic BEIS strike solid
PCS members at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) began their two-day strike for the London Living Wage at 3.00pm on...
Ealing strikers in high spirits
THERE were high spirits on the parking services workers’ picket line outside Ealing Town Hall in west London yesterday morning, with dhol drummers keeping...
Teachers Need Fully Funded Above Inflation Pay Rises!
UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...
‘Patient safety has never been at greater risk’ – RCN
‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...
4.3m UK CHILDREN NOW IN POVERTY! – RAISE CHILD BENEFIT DEMANDS COMMISSION
THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...
‘We are striking because people are dying!’ – says RCN’s Cullen!
‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...
700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty
THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...
RAAB GRILLED BY MPs
TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...
RCN to hand 160,000-strong petition into Downing Street! – demanding 12.5% pay rise now
THE ROYAL College of Nursing is taking the nurses pay claim campaign to the heart of government as its ballot opens on industrial action...
Barristers Strike Growing In Strength
HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...
NHS registration fee – 18% hike opposed
A 38,000-STRONG petition was handed in to the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) in Kennington, south London at midday yesterday, protesting at the...
PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT! – ‘bring us back in-house’ demand ISS strikers
‘BRING us back in-house – people before profit!’ demanded striking NHS support staff on their picket line outside the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill,...
GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis
THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...
Royal London SERCO strike rally
DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...
Hunt Reveals A Bankrupt Britain
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has warned it is ‘unlikely’ that there will be room for any ‘significant’ tax cuts in the Budget. But Hunt said that...
All restrictions to be lifted a month early! – announces Johnson despite Covid deaths...
‘IT IS MY expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test...
LABOUR NOW ‘PARTY OF PATRIOTISM!’ – says witch-hunting Keir Starmer
SIR KEIR Starmer announced the institution of a witch-hunting regime in the Labour Party at a 30-minute press conference in East London yesterday. He insisted...
PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan
TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...