Title: May | 2016 | Beastrabban\'s Weblog
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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

Content: Nationalise the Railways
On the railways, the £900m surplus on East Coast trains, operated publicly after the private sector crashed twice, shows us the way ahead. Instead of boosting Richard Branson’s profits, a nationalised railway could make a profit and generate the cash to improve every station in Britain. A ‘Robin Hood’ Tax on City Speculators
If we want extra money for the National Health Service and social care, we should levy a Robin Hood tax on speculators in the city. Directing the funds raised directly to health and care, including help for the mentally handicapped, rather than to the Treasury, would be immensely popular. We could start with a low rate and increase it when the tax proves to be popular, as I’m sure it will be, by emulating the one per cent National Insurance rise for the NHS when Gordon Brown was Chancellor. Scrap Trident
Scrapping Trident would free up billions of pounds for a massive house building programme so everybody has a roof over their head and nobody is homeless. The position on council house sales has to change or local authorities won’t build houses if they know they must sell them cheaply after a few years. End Nuclear Weapons, Restore Local Democracy
The savings from defusing nuclear weapons can also help save local democracy. Councils are being swamped by central government. Powers are either grabbed by Whitehall or transferred to unelected quangos.