By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
This week it was announced that a major Tory donor, Sir Andrew Cook, was threatening to cut his funding of the party if they pursued a ‘Hard Brexit’ in their upcoming negotiations with the EU*. Now many people may agree with his view as to what[…]
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By January 11, 2017 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments 
By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
The Labour Party currently appears to be in the process of tearing itself apart, with the left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn being challenged by a more right-wing candidate in the form of Owen Smith. This battle is the culmination of a year of conflict in the Labour[…]
By September 5, 2016 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
People are probably by now getting fed-up with all the arguments around the EU Referendum, and maybe don’t need yet another opinion to consider. However there is so much mis-information and scaremongering being put out, by both sides, that I’d like to try and bring some[…]
By June 16, 2016 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
By Mary Bolinbroke
We live in a society that has spent many decades establishing a culture of pressures and materialistic milestones to push our kids into their future. Democracy built around corporations has neatly set up guidelines for our lives. Young people are now taught that there is only one route that may be taken[…]
By April 28, 2016 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
This week we have been rocked by the Tax Avoidance scandal coming out of Panama, after a whistle-blower leaked more than 11 million documents from the law-firm Mossack Fonseca. This firm has spent the last 40 years helping their wealthy clients worldwide to hide money and[…]
By April 14, 2016 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
This week we have seen the Tory government slowly getting engulfed in the crisis caused by Indian company Tata’s threat to close steel works across the UK. As well as meaning that the UK would no longer have a viable steel industry, if this were to[…]
By April 6, 2016 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
The news this week has been full of comment about Google, its dreadful tax avoidance, and the way it managed to strike a cosy deal with the Inland Revenue to get away with paying only 10% of the tax that should have been due on its[…]
By February 7, 2016 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News, Uncategorized No Comments
By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
By electing Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader, the Labour Party has finally thrown off the last vestiges of Blair-ism and taken a firm step back towards its Leftist roots. This has led to much shock, both within the party and outside it, with the inevitable[…]
By October 6, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System
With the demise of Ed Milliband after Labour’s election defeat, the race is now well underway to find a successor. Initially this seemed as if it would follow the predictable path, with various pro-business Blairite-type candidates fighting it out between them, while a token ‘Old Labour’[…]
By July 23, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
