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Why does Britain grind to a halt as soon as we get a few snowflakes? Answer – capitalism. Here are the facts. Road Salt, what the gritting lorries pump out to make our roads safe, is produced for the UK by two private mining companies, the Salt Union in Cheshire, and the Cleveland Potash company.
Last week, Portsmouth FC became the first
top-flight football club in England to go into voluntary administration as a
result of their massive debts, currently estimated at £86 million. Over the
season so far, they have repeatedly failed to pay wages on time, owe the Inland
Revenue millions in unpaid taxes and VAT, have had to sell many of their
players to get quick cash and – as a result – are lying firmly at the bottom of
the Premier league table. According to
the Guardian (3/3/10) they need to find £14 million just to keep going until
the end of April.
As Birmingham reels after the
discovery of the tenth child - a two year old from Harborne - to die from
neglect in the city in under four years, the Tory/Liberal run City Council has
announced its main target for cutbacks – the council’s Children, Young People
and Families Service. Birmingham, the
largest local authority in the UK, has a £26 million deficit and aims to slash
over 2,000 jobs from Social Services: 1300 jobs from the Children, Young People
and Families Service and 305 jobs from Adult and Community Services.
In the Labour Party and among Trade Union leaders here in Wales, it is
thought defeatist and almost traitorous, to express the belief that
Labour may lose the General Election this year. We look at how things are panning out in Wales and what Labour really needs to do to avoid defeat in the coming elections.
This year, Britain experienced its coldest winter in over 30 years, and
as temperatures dropped below -20ºC in some parts of the UK, thousands
of people suffered the effects of one of society’s gravest ills: fuel
poverty.
Kingston upon Thames has become the latest target in ongoing attacks against the National Health Service.
Segments of the NHS are to be subject to renewed cuts and transfers
that will see medical care placed in the hands of the private sector.
The news that Cadbury, the iconic chocolate making firm, has accepted a hostile bid from US based Kraft is clearly not good news for Cadbury workers given the huge debt Kraft is currently carrying. In an article wriiten just before the news broke we look at what all this could mean.
It is customary at this time of year to look back over the events of the last 12 months. In this article published in the final issue of Socialist Appeal for 2009, Terry McPartlan takes a trip back over the highs and lows of the year (and decade) now ending.
Earlier this week two
hundred angry North London residents packed into an emergency meeting convened
by Islington’s Labour MP, Jeremy Corbyn, after a government document was leaked
revealing plans to close Archway’s Whittington Hospital Accident &
Emergency department.
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