Tag Archives: Tories

By Adam Harmsworth Pressure is growing on the government to act on soaring energy bills which risk throwing 40% of UK households into fuel poverty. The Tory response has been predictably inadequate. They’ve announced a mandatory £200 loan in our bills, and a £150 council tax rebate, which the Resolution Foundation think tank has shown won’t reach an eighth of ...

By Ross Saunders Biggest TUSC council election stand offers alternative Liar Boris Johnson and his Tories were given a bloody nose in the 2022 council elections in Wales, but none of the other parties of the Welsh capitalist establishment were able to fully take advantage of the developing anger at Tory rule. Labour now controls eight councils, Plaid Cymru four, ...

By Michael Johnson, Socialist Party LGBTQ+ group convenor Since 2018, Tory ministers have promised to ban the barbaric practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people on 35 separate occasions. In that time, eight countries have passed bans. However, on 31 March, news leaked that the Boris Johnson government was dropping the proposed ban. This news met with an unsurprising backlash. ...

Save Jobs, Nationalise P&O Ferries! By Dave Reid P&O Ferries, owned by Dubai-based DP World have sacked 800 workers in a pre-recorded message on zoom. The bosses turned up with agency workers to replace them backed up by security guards ready to handcuff workers who refused to leave the ships. Workers responded by occupying some of the ferries and are ...

By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party General Secretary “One more strike and he’s out”, declared longstanding Tory MP Roger Gale in the wake of the kicking his party got from voters in the Shropshire North by election, previously held by the Tories for almost two centuries. Gale meant that Johnson is in the last chance saloon with the Tory backbenches, but ...

Make big business pay, not workers Queues at petrol stations causing traffic chaos, fuel bills rising with energy firms going bust and the risk of empty supermarket shelves for Christmas – all symptoms of a system that is sick. A £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit, the end of furlough and a hike in national insurance – all ways in which ...

Social care is in crisis and needs fixing. There’s no doubt about that. Over 40,000 died from Covid in care homes during the pandemic in an overwhelmingly privatised system that puts profit before safety. Average pay for care workers is a paltry £8.50 an hour. One in four are on zero-hour contracts. With that level of pay and condition it’s ...

By Katrine Williams, Wales TUC general council (in a personal capacity The UK Tory government is setting up another colossal experiment which could put wave three of the pandemic into super-exponential growth. Placing all the blame on us. The ‘learning to live with Covid’ mantra just means the Tories are happy to accept more people will die and do nothing ...

By Sarah Sachs-Eldridge ‘Rape has been decriminalised’. This was a 2019 assessment of a situation where just 1.6% of rapes result in someone being charged. Each year around 128,000 people are victims of rape but only just over 2,000 charges are made. This was a factor in the outpouring of anger that followed the killing of Sarah Everard in March ...

By Dave Reid and Alec Thraves Welsh Labour has won the Welsh parliament election with an increased vote and seats. Mark Drakeford’s government benefited from the “incumbency factor” and actually increased its number of seats in the Senedd to 30, half of the 60 seats. This was despite polls at the beginning of the Covid crisis indicating that it would ...