Solidarity 291, 3 July 2013

On a slope to NHS user charges

Once again, it's more money for the banks, and more people to the food banks. From 2015, if you lose your job, it will be at least seven days until you can get JSA. That will not bother you if you are someone like George Entwhistle, who got an £800,000 pay-off when he resigned after just 54 days as director-general of the BBC. If you are low-paid, or you are on a zero-hours contract and got no pay at all last week, it will. In his spending review on 26 June, George Osborne also tightened the squeeze on lone parents and vowed to abolish public service workers' automatic or semi-automatic annual...

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