An effective Labour opposition is a matter of life and death
Government policy in Britain remains much closer to ‘herd immunity’, which is tantamount to letting the Covid-19 crisis rip through the population, than to an effective lockdown.
British Politics
To end Britain’s coronavirus disaster, the priority must change from saving profits to saving lives
The rising daily number of people dying from coronavirus in Britain is disastrous. Deaths are now increasing at almost the fastest rate in the world. If the government does not change its completely inadequate policy the situation will become a catastrophe.
The case for decriminalisation has been made by the current pandemic
The current pandemic, while highlighting gaping holes in the health services caused by austerity, is also exposing artificial restrictions put in place for women against the medical community’s recommendations.
The purpose of the Emergency Coronavirus Bill is to protect the economy and the government, not public health
The Coronavirus Bill has had little public political discussion. It is being rushed through parliament today (23rd March). Its provisions reflect the scale of the impact of Covid-19: an impact which will be all the greater the longer the lessons of countries which have contained the virus are not learned (particularly China). Instead of containing the virus government’s lack of appropriate action is allowing it to spread.
Tory inaction is leading Britain into unnecessary Coronavirus catastrophe
The population of Britain is facing a catastrophe because of Boris Johnson’s Tory government callous and barbaric inaction which is allowing the coronavirus to spread uncontrollably throughout the population.
The Tories’ new racist offensive attacks all workers
The Tories have launched an attack on all working people with their new immigration policy. It will probably do serious damage to our public services, even if big exemptions and exclusions from the new restrictions are finally put in place.
Behind all the populist rhetoric about restricting cheap labour, the major risk is that the system is actually designed to create a new, lower category of worker in this country, akin to something like the gastarbeiter (“guest worker”) status in Germany.