Tom Miller
Tom Miller
Middle class salaries and a social democratic future
“To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.”
-Aneurin Bevan
Britain’s TUC recently has recently published research showing that the relative incomes of [...]
‘Euro lock’ hypocrisy is actually an open door for Europe
David Cameron has just made a speech in which he signified a massive U-turn on his ‘cast iron’ referendum scheme for the Lisbon Treaty, by abandoning the referendum itself (a breathtaking demonstration of hypocrisy in action), and instead rashly promising a ‘referendum lock’ on further treaties (i.e. passing a law which would demand a referendum [...]
The problem for the centre-left
I realise that this post could be more appropriate than after a major election win in a European country, but I had to start off somewhere, and I thought I might as well go with a gripe.
Though PES member parties have won in both Portugal and Greece in recent weeks, it is worth remembering the [...]