Labour Party

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Jul 13, 2025 • via BBC News

When "Technically Insolvent" Becomes Actually Broken: The SEND Crisis Consuming British Councils

How Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council's SEND Debt Exposes Systemic Failures in British Governance

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council has declared itself "technically insolvent" due to special educational needs and disability (SEND) costs. The council faces a £171 million shortfall by March 2026. This isn't a future risk—it's a present reality masked by accounting tricks.

Jul 12, 2025 • via The Telegraph

The VAT Raid's Real Casualties: How Labour's Education Tax Destroyed Working Class Aspiration While Handing Millions to Eton

Analysis of Labour's VAT on private schools reveals a policy that has backfired spectacularly, harming the very families it claimed to help while enriching elite institutions.

Six months after Labour introduced VAT on private school fees, the evidence reveals a policy that has achieved the exact opposite of its stated aims. While politicians promised to fund 6,500 new state teachers by taxing elite institutions, the reality shows working class families priced out of education, state schools overwhelmed by displaced pupils, and Britain's most expensive schools claiming millions in VAT rebates.

Jul 6, 2025 • via The Guardian

Environment Secretary celebrates "significant progress" while sewage flows and Thames Water collapses

Labour's countryside comfort zone can't hide £96 billion in missing infrastructure investment

Steve Reed's appearance at Hertfordshire's Groundswell festival reveals the extraordinary disconnect between Labour's self-congratulation and Britain's accelerating institutional decay. While the Environment Secretary proclaimed "significant progress" from his hay bale podium, the nation's waterways continue to poison swimmers and Thames Water edges toward a collapse that will cost taxpayers billions.

Jun 28, 2025 • via The Guardian

The Stealth Tax Spiral: How Labour's Promises Collided With Reality

Rachel Reeves' Fiscal U-Turn and the Rise of Britain's Stealth Tax State

Britain's fiscal theatrics have reached a predictable crescendo. Rachel Reeves, having spent months insisting Labour would not raise taxes after their election victory, now finds herself eyeing the most regressive stealth tax available: freezing income tax thresholds to drag more workers into higher tax brackets.

Jun 27, 2025 • via The Independent

Labour's Welfare Betrayal: A Masterclass in Political Cowardice

How Labour's Two-Tier Welfare System Betrays Future Disabled People

Labour has engineered a welfare betrayal that perfectly exemplifies British political decay: faced with rebellion from 120 MPs over cuts to disability benefits, ministers created a two-tier system that protects existing claimants while slashing support for future disabled people by nearly 50%. This temporal discrimination ensures current voters keep their benefits while anyone requiring support after 2026 faces dramatically reduced payments—transforming the welfare state from social insurance into an electoral protection racket that sacrifices future claimants to preserve immediate political survival.