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budget2015

July 23, 2015

Benefit cuts may not be as popular as we're led to believe

We are constantly being told that the British public has swallowed the 'scroungers and skivers' rhetoric about benefit claimants, and is broadly in favour of welfare cuts.
July 13, 2015

George Osborne, the Budget, and the truth about ESA

When announcing a huge cut to Employment Support Allowance in his budget speech, George Os
July 11, 2015

Will the budget succeed in derailing the UK economy?

The Summer Budget produced by the UK chancellor George Osborne will, predictably, continue to widen the gap between the rich and the rest of the population.
July 10, 2015

Iain Duncan Smith, the Living Wage, and THAT fist pump

Within hours of Wednesday’s budget, a video was circulating round social media of Iain Duncan Smith punching the air with delight.
July 10, 2015

Scottish civic bodies criticise 'regressive' budget

Major third-sector organisations across Scotland have highlighted the serious regressive measures contained in the UK Budget.
July 9, 2015

Budget: so what's the alternative?

Inevitably budgets produce criticism, and just as inevitably the cry "what would you do?" or "what's the alternative?" Our good friend and stalwart Tax Research policy analyst and change-agent Rich
July 9, 2015

Quakers in Britain oppose expansion of cadets into state schools

Quakers in Britain say the budget pledge to expand cadet forces across 500 state schools is further evidence of the creeping militarisation of schools in England
July 9, 2015

Details of welfare cuts and the impact of the budget on the most vulnerable

It would be quite misleading to describe the 2015 Summer Budget as a “one nation budget” or as favouring “working families” and “giving the nation a pay rise” in any meaningful sense, says Simon Barrow. On the contrary it hits low income households and disabled people, and will increase further Britain’s alarming levels of inequality.
July 8, 2015

£50 million for school cadet units will not improve the prospects of young people

The prospects for young people have not been improved by the Summer Budget. Let me count the ways of failure.
July 8, 2015

Budget: don't be young, poor, or disabled, and don't have a third child

The idea of a compulsory National Living Wage sounds very attractive, and will no doubt grab most of the budget headlines.