Them and us
During the iast 5 years the top five per cent oi the US population has seen its wealth increase by 50 per cent. One in rive US children now Fair point:
Accoraing to fameu US evangelist Pat Robertson, campaigning for the re-election of President Bush, reminism 'is not about equai it is a socialist anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become Indecent The number of people earning below the Council of Europe decency threshold (now £190 a week) has increased by one million since the Tories came to power. In 1979 there were 3.9 million, now there are on 4.7 million.
That's privatisation!
Norwegian ship building giant Kvaerner has bought the world-class Wi arnow shipyard in Rostock for a piffling £350,000. The shipyard is worth tens of millions. In addition the German government has guaranteed more than £200 million to cover losses in the shipyard's Hypocrite of the week According to ex-Eurocom guru Martin JaRespectability has become Labour's motif, the defining characteristic of the new model party, in which policy is a question of adding one's voice to the chorus. Labour has abandoned any desire to shape the character of political debate. Politics has become... a matter of market positioning. If it was interested in debate, it would not be so keen to suppress differences within its own ranks'. In other words Labour has done everything jaques spent the whole of the 1980s arguing for!
Worth every penny
The government spent £10 billion defending the pound. This could have paid the yearly salary of an extra 854,700 nurses or 40,000 hospital consultants. Or repair 20,00 primary schools and build an extra 2,150 new ones Sacrifice We all have to make sacrifices in a recession -right? Lord Weinstock, chairman of GEC, has insisted on limiting his pay increase to £3000 this year. This puts him on a measly £472,000. But to keep the wolves from the door, he and his 40-year old son Simon own £85m worth of and probably has millions stashed away in secret bank accounts has signed on and is claiming benefits of £194 a week.
Howard nicked
Tory environment minister, upper class twit Michael Howard, has been caught fare dodging by BR inspectors. He had to pay a £i0 Shop staff axe 70,000 shop staff were sacked in just the first three months of this year because of the recession. The total for this year could top 150,00.