Posts Tagged ‘TUC’

The TUC swipes away a miserabilist myth

And you know the myth I mean.   You know, there is loads of ‘hidden unemployment‘ that reflects some sort of Labour fiddle, taking the gloss out of the frankly wonderful unemployment figures (certainly compared to the gleeful alarmism of the Conservative press last summer). Here is the TUC’s graph-strewn reply. Eight million economically inactive people [...]

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Robin Hood part Deux

A brief discussion of the TUC’s unrealistic banking transaction tax document.

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Radio 5 interview with Alison Wolf

It’s 25 minutes into this interview on the Victoria Derbyshire show. The diatribe from the TUC lady (about 29 minutes in) becomes unbelievable, aiming at all sorts of straw men like whether the paper is a call for locally-based minimum wages (it is not).  The TUC’s defensiveness on this is really telling.  They don’t want [...]

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