It’s better to break the law than to break the poor
Brenner’s unemployment mortality rate formula suggests that the cuts will result in the deaths of approximately 20,000 people due unemployment alone. What we are witnessing then is the nothing less than a genocide of the vulnerable. In the face of such brutality the only moral position open to councillors is to refuse to act as the executioner for this government of millionaires. We must create a campaign similar to those in the 1920′s and 1980′s based upon the setting of illegal no cuts budgets.
A green ‘Plan B’ – why we need a low-carbon strategy out of recession
By Mark Watts, chair of the Environment session at this weekends Progressive London Conference, former environment adviser to Ken Livingstone From 2000 to 2008 London became recognised for its world leading environmental policies, from the congestion charge and Low Emission Zone to the Mayor’s ground-breaking Climate Change Action Plan, culminating in London’s creation and leadership [...]
Ken Livingstone hints at endorsement of Tony Juniper (but couldn’t possibly comment)
Fans of House of Cards will recognise it immediately. When asked whether he was urging Cantabrians to vote for Green candidate Tony Juniper over Labour’s Daniel Zeichner, Ken Livingstone cannily replied: “If I sit here all night you will not get me to say it. It would make life so difficult.” Or, as Francis Urquhart [...]