Foreign scroungers take our benefits
- January 20, 2012
- by
- Matt
It doesn’t stop, and in those dank and rancid corners of the national press that are forever England, it never will. Today the rightwing broadsheets and tabloids are venting on full spleen, spraying indignant flecks of bile at a report from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) which claims that 370,000 foreign-born residents in the UK are claiming state benefits.
The news has generated the kind of nuanced and thoughtful headlines we have come to expect:
370,000 migrants on the dole – The Daily Telegraph
More than £2 BILLION in benefits are...
Death on the Greek borders
- January 18, 2012
- by
- Matt
International attention is once again focussed on Greece as EU and IMF officials gather in Athens to work out a deal to prevent a potential debt default and a Greek exit from the eurozone, and protesters once again take to the streets. EU/IMF ‘reforms’ have already had a disastrous impact on large swathes...
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