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Archive for May, 2016
Dennis Skinner on Ending Exploitation by Private Employment Agencies
Dennis Skinner’s Personal Recommendations for Improving Britain
End Privatisation
Nationalise the Railways
A ‘Robin Hood’ Tax on City Speculators
Scrap Trident
End Nuclear Weapons, Restore Local Democracy
Nationalise the Utilities
Spend More on Education; End Privatised Schooling
Raise Minimum Wage
Ban Zero Hours Contracts
Increase Trade Union Rights
Abandon Tory Obsession with Fiscal Restraint
Ken Livingstone on Perestroika and Industrial Democracy
Norman Finkelstein on the Media Lies of the Israel Lobby
Porky Scratchings Zionist Trolling
The Lies of the Israel Lobby
Arab Opposition Not Biblical, Based on Zionist Colonisation in 19th and 20th Centuries
The Origins of the Different Moral Standards Claimed by Zionists
Lies about the Rise in Anti-Semitic Attacks
Anti-Semitism Allegations Made to Attack Critics of Israel
Dershowitz and In Defence of Israel
Israel Lobby’s Attitude to Truth that of Revolutionary Communists
Norman Finkelstein exposes Lies and Frauds on the Israel-Palestine conflict
Mikhail Gorbachev on Worker’s Control in Perestroika
Dennis Skinner on Cameron and Osborne
Conservative civil war: Clarke bashes Boris, Cash lays into Cameron
Vox Political
Ken Livingstone on How Nazism Discredited Post-War European Conservatives
Twitter Bigot Falsely Accuses Vox Political Writer of Anti-Semitism For Criticising Anti-Semitism Allegations
Dennis Skinner on the Battle of Orgreave
Ken Livingstone on the Rehabilitation of Fascists to Protect Capitalism

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Dennis Skinner’s Personal Recommendations for Improving Britain
May 31, 2016
The veteran Labour MP and trade unionist, Dennis Skinner, also makes some political recommendations of his own in his autobiographical Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences, published two years ago in 2014. He summarises his plans, saying
So I’m fighting for a new Labour government to axe the bedroom tax, save the NHS, cut fuel bills, created jobs for the young and raise living standards. My personal manifesto will be to the left of that of the party but I’m committed 100 per cent to the election of Labour candidates across Britain. ( p.313). As for the proposals themselves, he writes (headlines in bold are mine)
I’ve a few suggestions of my own to boost Labour’s popularity and beat the Tories. End Privatisation
To start the ball rolling we should end expensive privatisation instead of paying a fortune to contractors such as G4S, Serco and Capita that make a mess of services in the process. It’s time we got back to publicly run, publicly owned services provided in the public interest.