Natalie Bloomer

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*Blog

"This is not a party of or for the working class. They are a bunch of chancers who will do and say anything to win votes."

Ukip Hillsborough fiasco reveals party’s true colours

*Comment & Analysis

Austerity: The policy may be over, the effects are still creeping in

2017: The year the full effects of austerity are felt

*Blog

"It's no coincidence that the housing crisis comes at the same time as council houses are being sold off and forgotten about."

The Tory plans for the housing crisis once again involve no social housing

*Blog

"The estimated cost of so-called 'health-tourism' is low, at just 0.3% of the overall NHS budget."

Britain saved the lives of two babies – the Sun wants us to be angry about it

*Blog

"Given her own controversial past policies then, it's little wonder the prime minister was hesitant to criticise the president."

Of course May backed Trump’s Muslim ban – she’s as bad as he is

*Blog

"If you're working class, yesterday's Social Mobility Commission report will make for grim reading."

Class discrimination: The silent prejudice no-one bothers to talk about

*Blog

"Whatever the result of next month's vote in Copeland, it's clear that Sellafield will play a vital role in the outcome."

Tories threatened by their own nuclear meltdown in Copeland

It’s not just Labour that faces a nuclear problem in the upcoming byelection

News

"In a meeting this morning, staff were told that 100% of the service charge will now be passed on to workers."

Victory for restaurant workers as Harrods backs down over service charge

The department store will no longer take a cut from the service charge

*Blog

"Shelter estimates that 1,260 families in London will lose their home in the next month"

Council policy of moving homeless out of the area spreads nationwide

*Comment & Analysis

"Workers say that every few months or so, bosses will make several sackings in one go. They believe it's used as a way to let the staff know they are dispensable."

Hidden cameras, mass sackings and a climate of fear: Life as a Harrods restaurant worker

*Blog

"You don't get to hold a senior position in government and then act as if you have nothing to do with its failings"

May’s own record shows that yesterday’s speech was just empty rhetoric

News

Protesters gathered outside Harrods yesterday over the company's tips policy

Union boss arrested following Harrods tips protest

News

"Management admitted to staff during the meeting that the company currently deducts around 50% of the service charge paid by diners."

Harrods frantically tries to appease staff ahead of tips protest

*Comment & Analysis

Trying to appeal to both sides of the Brexit divide, risks turning Labour into an irrelevance.

Week in review: Syria, Labour and the prison crisis

*Blog

"There's never a good time for somebody to be sanctioned by the Jobcentre, but when it happens at Christmas, it's particularly brutal."

Sanctioned at Christmas

News

"Workers at the high-end department store's restaurants are involved in a dispute with bosses over the amount the company deducts from the service charge"

Harrods faces strikes and protests over ‘unfair’ tips policy

*Comment & Analysis

"There are mothers around the UK who are forced to rely on charity for even the most basic baby products."

The women forced to rely on ‘baby banks’ to provide for their newborn children

*Blog

"As we approach the end of the year, nobody really seems to be any clearer about the government's Brexit plan"

Week in review: Brexit, strikes, and Edwardian radicalism

*Blog

"The situation is obviously deeply frustrating for the passengers affected by the strike, but that is the whole point of industrial action"

Don’t blame the workers for Christmas strikes – blame the employers

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