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The headlines this morning make painful reading to anyone who can see the real costs of The Labour Party’s plans and what they will involve.

Actually, it’s not the suggested figure of £1.2 Trillion over five years spent on public services that the real problem.

It’s the reality that this child-in-a-sweet-shop-with-birthday-money approach to fixing public services involves nothing more original than throwing money at the problems with no investment for the future or genuine long-term returns involved.All well and good you might say if your only priority is to get a government elected and indefinitely keep that power.But for the millions […]

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Armistice Day 2019 Boris Johnson has pledged to change the law to protect Armed Forces veterans from vexatious legal action, as the General Election campaign enters its second week.

The Tories want to end unfair trials of veterans where no new evidence has been produced and the accusations have been questioned exhaustively in court.

If they win a majority at the election, the party will amend the Human Rights Act so it does not apply to incidents – including deaths during the Troubles – which took place before the law came into force in 2000.The pledge is among a package of […]

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Armistice Day 2019 Boris Johnson has pledged to change the law to protect Armed Forces veterans from vexatious legal action, as the General Election campaign enters its second week.

The Tories want to end unfair trials of veterans where no new evidence has been produced and the accusations have been questioned exhaustively in court.

If they win a majority at the election, the party will amend the Human Rights Act so it does not apply to incidents – including deaths during the Troubles – which took place before the law came into force in 2000.The pledge is among a package of […]

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A Labour government may pilot a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme, possibly to replace the current benefit system, it has been claimed. In an interview with The Independent , shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he intended to include a pilot UBI scheme in Labour’s manifesto – adding that the it would be even more radical than the document that turned around the party’s fortunes in the 2017 election.

Mr McDonnell, a long-term supporter of UBI, said he was looking at including “at least one pilot” in Labour’s blueprint for government: The concept generally involves overhauling the welfare state by scrapping […]

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Sajid Savid: accused by UK Labour Party of spreading fake news British finance minister, Sajid Javid was caught in the maelstrom of fake news on Sunday after he cited a dossier accusing the Labour Party of plans embark on reckless spending if it wins the 12 December election.

Javid claimed Labour planned to increase spending by £1.2trillion in five years and plunge Britain into economic crisis.

Labour strongly dismissed the report as fake news, saying vigorously it has no such plan and that its plan is to tax the rich to help the poor.The future path of Britain’s economy, the world’s […]

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CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE:CXW)’s interesting series of developments are underway around the US stock market these days. Now trading with a market value of 1.90B, the company has a mix of catalysts and obstacles that spring from the nature of its operations. In light of the many issues surrounding this company, we thought it was a good time to take a close look at the numbers in order to form a realistic perspective on the fundamental picture for this stock.

CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE:CXW) Fundamentals That Matter

It’s generally a good idea to start with the most fundamental piece of the […]

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Sajid Javid: ‘Now is the time for responsible investment’

A row erupted this weekend over Labour’s spending commitments which Shadow Chancellor Sajid Javid said would leave the UK “on the brink of bankruptcy”.

Tory party research claims Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s spending plans would cost £1.2 trillion over five years.Mr Javid said that Labour’s spending plans would cost the country an extra £650 million a day, or almost £5 billion a week, and push total Government spending up by 30%.The £1.2 trillion figure is more than the combined GDP of Denmark, Ireland and Austria. Every time Labour get into power […]

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Support is growing for a new Universal Basic Income system that could replace Universal Credit and other benefits in the UK.

A network of local groups – known as UBI labs – have now been established to explore how a basic income for all could work.

And with Labour suggesting a pilot of the radical new system may be in their election manifesto, the idea seems closer than ever to coming to fruition.Groups in Liverpool and Sheffield have already achieved success with their research – with Liverpool City Council backing a motion calling for a UBI trial in the city. How […]

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Democratic presidential candidates at the strart of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Being an artist is a profession and an identity. The pressure to continually make new work demands time, space, and financial and emotional resources. According to The Creative Independent’s 2018 “ Study on the Financial State of Visual Artists Today ,” around one-third of the artists surveyed invest 10 to 25 percent of their income into their practice. For emerging artists, this spending supports practices that are not yet, and may never be, financially […]

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Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE:GWRE) is an interesting stock at present. Now trading with a market value of 9.38B, the company has a mix of catalysts and obstacles that spring from the nature of its operations. In light of the many issues surrounding this company, we thought it was a good time to take a close look at the numbers in order to form a realistic perspective on the fundamental picture for this stock.

Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE:GWRE) Fundamentals That Matter

It’s generally a good idea to start with the most fundamental piece of the picture: the balance sheet. The […]

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