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REALITY: Cameron's government inherited a growing economy and falling deficit.
Economic myths and realities | The wrong cure | False Economy
OAP fury over pension reforms | Moneywise
Currently, at 65 you're entitled to a basic pension of £96.65 a week.
BBC News - Shelter Cymru on rise in help calls from middle-class
More professionals fear having their homes repossessed, according to the Shelter Cymru
TheyWorkForYou lets you find out what your MP, MSP or MLA is doing in your name, read debates, written answers, see what’s coming up in Parliament, and sign up for email alerts when there’s past or future activity on someone or something you’re interested in.
TheyWorkForYou.com: Are your MPs and Peers working for you in the UK's Parliament? Hansard++
Dr John Lister provides a witty insight into the true intent of the government's plans to reform the health service - a privatised, unaccountable NHS.
LHE - London Health Emergency
I am writing in a private capacity because I have a number of concerns regarding the white paper, Liberating the NHS.
Health and Social Care Bill
George Osborne will hand 23 million lower and middle-income earners a tax cut today partly paid for by a raid on the super-rich. The Chancellor will lift nearly one million people out of income tax by raising to £9,000 the threshold below which earnings are untaxed.
Westons breached charity law over Tory donations - Times Online
Press release: UK Uncut Occupy Tax Dodgers Fortnum and Mason | UK Uncut
UK Uncut secret occupation revealed as Fortnum & Mason 3.30pm – UK Uncut occupy Fortnum & Mason and aim to stay for as long as possible
Education Minister Leighton Andrews made the commitment as he outlined Wales' response to the UK government's plan to increase fees in England.
BBC News - Uni fees subsidy for Welsh students
Perhaps we should scream. Before it's too late - Comment - TES Connect
In one of his most vicious and disturbing works, poet Philip Larkin looks through terror-stricken eyes at "The Old Fools" - those infirm and demented elderly relatives sitting in institutional high-backed chairs, reeking of urine, mouths lolling open, and undergoing a "whole hideous inverted childhood". Needless to say, it is a picture of utter degradation.
Critics said it was further evidence that banks had become divorced from reality, especially in the wake of RBS’s £1.1billion financial loss.
Taxpayer-backed RBS paid more than £1m to 323 staff | Mail Online
Universities Minister David Willetts said the figures were 'unusual' but that those people were likely to earn substantial sums later in their careers. The disclosure came after MPs voted to raise tuition fees to £6,000 last December, with institutions able to charge up to £9,000 in 'exceptional circumstances'. Celebration: But delight at graduating could be dulled by the prospect of a lifetime of debt.
Graduates face paying back staggering £83k for taking out full student loans | Mail Online
Where is the University of Glamorgan?
Where is the University of Glamorgan?The BCC says a rate rise now would be premature The UK economy will grow by less than expected in 2011 but growth in 2012 will be better than predicted, the British Chambers of Commerce forecasts.
BBC News - UK economy growth forecast for 2011 cut by BCC
26 January 2011 Last updated at 17:22 GMT By Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website, Davos
BBC News - Davos 2011: Soros warns UK cuts could cause recession
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