Tag Archives: Alternatives
Alternatives: Invest in a New Generation of Social Housing
This is part of a series examining the alternatives to cuts and austerity. In this post we look at building a new generation of eco-friendly social housing. This investment would be funded directly by the government and not through expensive … Continue reading
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Alternatives: One Million Climate Jobs
This post is part of a series examining the alternatives to cuts and austerity. The Campaign Against Climate Change produced a report calling for the creation of 1 million jobs to invest in a sustainable future. We face two big … Continue reading
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New Poster Available Now – Austerity Isn’t Working
We’ve got a new poster available If you come to one of our planning meetings, then you can pick up copies there – if you can’t come, please email BirminghamAgainstTheCuts@Gmail.com and we’ll look to arrange delivery to you via someone … Continue reading
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Austerity Isn’t Working: Budget Day Protest
2.67 million people are now unemployed in the UK. Austerity is not working. On Wednesday 21st March, George Osborne will unveil his next budget, which we already know will continue to follow a policy of austerity, a policy which is … Continue reading
Alternatives: Robin Hood / Financial Transactions Tax
There are a few different names for this – a financial transactions tax (FTT), a Tobin tax or more commonly in the last couple of years a Robin Hood tax. The Robin Hood of old stole from the rich to … Continue reading
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Is Austerity Solving Our Economic Problems?
6 months ago, I wrote this post, asking whether austerity measures can solve the deficit problem, and I thought it was time to have a look at what I said in that post, and what has happened since then. In … Continue reading
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Alternatives to the Cuts: Welfare not Warfare
This post is part of a series of posts detailing alternatives to the cuts and austerity agenda of the ConDem coalition. You can find other posts on alternatives in our archive or on the excellent False Economy website. This post … Continue reading
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As more bad economic news comes out, unions prepare to strike for the alternative
Over the past week, the ONS has released economic data concerning inflation and unemployment, and the news is not good. Inflation is now at 5.2% (RPI), meanwhile, wages have risen by 2.8% on average, meaning a real terms pay cut … Continue reading
Alternatives: Close the £120bn Tax Gap
This post is another in our series exploring the alternatives to the cuts and austerity agenda of the ConDem coalition. In this post I will look at the tax gap, which costs the treasury an estimated £120bn every year, and … Continue reading
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Alternatives to the Cuts: Keynesian stimulus
This post forms part of the alternatives to cuts series, an exploration into why cuts won’t work, and what we could be doing instead. As I wrote in the Will Austerity Solve the Deficit Problem? post, there is a clear … Continue reading
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