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Energy customer switches rise by 30%, as millions of customers change supplier in 2016     New figures from Ofgem reveal a huge surge in customers switching energy suppliers to get

Brexit latest: public borrowing worse than expected in wake of referendum vote   The surplus in July of £1bn was worse than the £1.6bn City of London analysts had expected

Barclays settles $100mn claim with US states over Libor scandal   Barclays bank has reached $100 million US settlement over Libor rigging scandal. Thu Aug 11, 2016 12:37AM   Barclays,

Labour’s 2015 income hit record high and beat Tories   DONATIONS to the Labour Party hit an annual record high last year and outstripped the Tories by almost £10 million,

50,000 ‘Blocked’ from Voting in Labour Race   Yet registered supporters won’t get their money back   by Lamiat Sabin and Will Stone Aug 2016 Wednesday 3rd posted by Morning

Nationalisation WITHOUT compensation – Corbyn Leadership campaign team pledges to take back flogged-off state assets   ( without compensation AND with damages costs built in )   Aug 2015 Monday

Borrowing soars past planned total for year   GOVERNMENT borrowing in the first quarter of 2016 has already exceeded planned borrowing for the entire year, official figures published revealed yesterday.

Osborne was at it again earlier this week,-   Editorial, Morning Star, 6th July 2016   – telling the Financial Times of his plan to cut corporation tax to below

Tackling funeral poverty     AN INITIATIVE to curb “funeral poverty” by Quaker Social Action charity has been bolstered by the sign-up of the Co-op’s funeral service.   Jul 2016

EU referendum:     Sterling falls after Independent poll puts Brexit 10 points ahead     Just before 6.30pm on Friday evening the pound was trading at 1.4343      

Premier League finances: the full club-by-club breakdown and verdict   Assessing the accounts of 2014-15’s top-flight clubs – and what the figures say about their financial health • The 2013-14

Fact 1Asda North Hykeham  or American Walmart loses another customer to Aldi/ Lidl all because it cannot give away, or sell for charity as the Coop do, the black pots

 Insider trading is the trading of a public company’s stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) by individuals with access to nonpublic information about the company  

Fat-cat banking giants ‘bankrolling pro-EU camp’ BANKS that have been fined billions of pounds for their part in the 2008 financial crisis are helping bankroll the pro-EU campaign, it was

A First for the NHS Pensioner ? “NHS Pension Scheme 2016 update The increase is based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) As this was in Minus at 30 Sept

‘Dodgy Dave’s’ tax affairs to avoid parliamentary probe, says watchdog     British Prime Minister David Cameron © Dylan Martinez / Reuters 1.1K Prime Minister David Cameron’s tax affairs will

Far from taxing Shell, Britain actually paid the oil giant £85mn Britain was the only country in the world to give money to oil giant Shell last year, when UK

US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax havens, claims Oxfam report Charity analysis of the 50 biggest US businesses claims Apple have $181bn held offshore, while General Electric has $119bn

Bank Of England leaves rates on hold   The Bank of England has left interest rates on hold at 0.5% and indicated it would act “more cautiously” ahead of the

UK PM avoided inheritance duties, tax records show Sun Apr 10, 2016       British Prime Minister David Cameron is under fire for avoiding inheritance tax after his mother gave

Selling England (and Wales) by the pound IN September 2015 Private Eye created an easily searchable online map (see below) of properties in England and Wales owned by offshore companies.

‘In it together’ never the case   DAVID CAMERON’S assertion that he behaved like a slippery eel over his account in an offshore tax haven was because of anger that

The British Penny-   How Dare they Challenge our Authority-   European Union Directive No. 456179 – “In order to bring about further integration with the single European currency, the

Housing crisis: Foreign despots buy up London, while millennials left out in the cold     Published time: 7 Apr, 2016 15:49   While under-35s are effectively locked out of

Cameron: I benefited from Panama-based trust   Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron ©AFP Britain’s prime minister admits he was a beneficiary of a Panama-based offshore trust set up by his

Osborne scarpers as media quizzes him on tax status   THE Chancellor of the Exchequer dodged a reporter yesterday as he was quizzed on whether he had benefited from funds

World financial corruption writ large   The Panama papers show politicians have stopped representing ordinary people and chosen to serve the interests of powerful corporations and the wealthy, says RABBIL

Tip of the tax dodging iceberg   FASCINATING though it is to hear that politicians from other countries are as bent as a clockwork orange, it beggars belief that a

National Living Wage In Comparison To Minimum Wages Across Europe We’re doing better than some but not others… 01/04/2016 11:25 | Louise Ridley Assistant news editor at The Huffington Post

Economic Management – Is the Labour Party fit for a Socialist Economy?-   The Radical Certainly the Labour Party is trying to move to the Left Only now consists of

UK households face council tax hike   View Photo Council tax payers across England are facing rises of up to 4%,   while authorities in London maintain a virtual freeze

ECB acts again to stimulate Eurozone- CUTS RATES   “The big question is if this is not going to work, then we have serious trouble.” – And Shit Sticks, so

EU referendum- Bank of England pledges extra funding as EU referendum fears grow Central bank will open lending facility on three extra days to prevent financial sector suffering a credit

Sterling bounces to 10-day high against weakened dollar     Sterling rose to its strongest against the dollar in almost two weeks on Thursday, recovering all of the ground lost

Jeremy Corbyn tells banks not to treat people as ‘cash cows’   Jeremy Corbyn has warned banks not to treat people as “cash cows”, as he called for reform of

Amazon Still Paddling up the Orinoco The Radical spends as little as possible at Amazon because of the way it treats it’s workers, but occasionally it sells produce I want.

Barclays has this morning announced a fall in profits for 2015,   the latest in a string of poor results   after low profits for HSBC and Lloyds and heavy

MPs handed 1% raise just 9 months after 10% booster   MPs are to bust the government’s public-sector pay cap again with a 1.3 per cent rise, Parliament’s pay watchdog

George Osborne warns of further spending cuts in Budget Osborne: “The economy is smaller than we thought in Britain”   Chancellor George Osborne has warned he may have to make

Our fiends in the city     Our banking system is still dangerously dysfunctional.   Post-crisis reforms failed to fully address the risks posed by the City of London, and

£5.8bn taxpayer bonus for the UK’s big banks    It’s results week for Britain’s biggest banks.   Yesterday, HSBC announced profits of £13.2bn for 2015 and a £7.3m pay deal

Tories hold annual secretive ‘Black and White Party’ fundraiser   A day on the campaign trail with Zac Goldsmith, election posters and Adele tickets were among the raffle prizes Guests

Cashword Scratch Cards and National Lottery are  a Hollow Mockery and a Deceitful sham. A £3 Cashword Card has 9 letter to 3 letter words but technically you could have

The bankers’ Chancellor is following the bankers’ orders   We are now eight years on from the banking crisis that brought the financial services sector to its knees and saw

Tax injustice is systemic   COMMUNIST trade union leader Ken Gill famously referred to taxation as “the price we pay for civilisation.”   If so last week gave further evidence

“Queen Elizabeth II the largest landowner on Earth.” Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of

Sterling hits 7-yr low as Carney warns of more China weakness Reuters – UK Focus – 52 minutes ago * Sterling falls to lowest since early 2009* Down 9 pct

Britain’s richest people £1bn richer in 2015   The UK’s richest people saw their wealth increase by $1.4bn (£900m) in 2015, with property tycoon the Duke of Westminster leading the