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#SGPconf: We need more jobs and workers need more power
We need to radically rethink our relationship with work, give workers more power and end austerity - that was the message from a discussion session on jobs and austerity at…
New unemployment figures: good news?
Just a quick post on the latest ONS labour market figures here. The figures on unemployment are being reported as broadly, but not excessively, good news for the government. The…
Griffiths: Long term jobs, not ‘here today, gone tomorrow’
Welsh Green Party leader Jake Griffiths opened up the Green Party Spring Conference in Cardiff today by outlining his manifesto for the Welsh Assembly. He promised to fight the 'here…
Employment and Growth: Latest Figures
The latest ONS figures for graduate employment do not make for pleasant reading. Particularly for those of us expecting to finish their current degrees this year (like myself). For the…
On the Coalition’s Plans for Welfare Reform
We don't know all the details of IDS's plans on welfare reform yet, but Fraser Nelson in The Spectator has a few details. It looks likely the plans will roll…
Conference Fragments – A Crisis Not of Debt, but Unemployment
Conference is nothing new to me, last weekend’s in Birmingham being my 10th (makes me feel very old at 22!) but this one I expected to be different, being our…
Conference Fragments – Mobilising the Jilted Generation
I spoke, along with Shiv Malik of 'Jilted Generation', at the Young Greens fringe on 'mobilising the jilted generation'. Shiv spoke eloquently about how Thatcherite liberalism has screwed today's 20…
We can’t go on like this. Cut the deficit obsession, not the deficit.
There have been a number of mash ups of the David Cameron “We can’t go on like this” poster. Possibly the most entertaining is this: There has been, however, a…