WHY THE TORIES DON’T CARE ABOUT NURSES

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #MayDUP, #OurNHS, activism, Brexit, Brexit negotiations, bursary cuts, crisis, cuts, DUP, employment, EU, EU students, EU workers, European Economic Area, european union, Free Education, frontline services, future, government, government cuts, health, healthcare, hospitals, How Come We Didn't Know?, Institute of Employment Studies, King's Lynn, magic money tree, Marion Macalpine, migrants, migration, NHS, NHS bursaries, NHS Norfolk Action Group, norfolk, norwich, nurse horror stories, nurses, nursing, nursing student applications, nursing students, politics, privatisation, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn, research, Royal College of Nursing, St Margaret's Church of Art, staff shortage, student applications, student debt, student loans, students, Sustainability and Transformation plans, The Telegraph, Tories, tuition fees, UEA, underfunding, universities, workers rights, workforce, workforce crisis.

by Robyn Banks

CW: death, disease, corpses.

Last week we heard that the number of people applying to become nursing students has fallen by 19% in the past year. As this is the first application cycle since government cuts to NHS bursaries, for many this will not be much of a shock. It’s clear that the government’s decision to take away this provision that allowed many students to attend their courses will have serious detrimental effects, not only for the institutions that train nurses but for the NHS as a whole.

THE CASE FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GE2017, Brexit, DUP, economics, EU, Farage, FBI, Grenfell, Leave, Lexit, Michel Barnier, putin, referendum, Russia, second referendum, theresa may, Union Jack.

By Zoe Harding

I know you’re sick of elections. I know you’re sick of polling. I know you’re deeply, deeply sick of campaigns, and I’m sorry about that.

But in my opinion? We need a second referendum, as a minimum. Brexit is looking more and more like a disaster with every passing minute, and someone, somewhere needs to find the political will to halt it. If the British people have to vote again so be it, because nothing I’ve seen in the past 12 months has done anything to demonstrate Brexit as anything other than a heaping pile of bollocks with a Union Jack in it, especially now Theresa May’s government has hobbled itself with a poorly-planned election.Continue Reading

CLIVE LEWIS MUST FIRMLY AND RESOLUTELY REPRESENT PROGRESSIVE NORWICH

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged chloe smith, Chris Jones, clive lewis, DUP, GE2017, general election, Green Party, Labour, left wing, norwich, Norwich Greens, Norwich North, norwich south, progressive, progressive alliance.

by Joe Burns

Clive Lewis must enforce the views of his progressive Norwich voters in this time of social crisis and DUP invasion. Our capital city has suffered in the weeks since the election, more clearly defining the need for a fully committed left-wing Government to begin to enact real change and progress.

After both the local election in May and the general election earlier this month, Labour is now absolutely the most popular party in Norwich. Clive Lewis, Norwich South Labour MP, did far more than just hold on to his seat – he doubled his majority in the constituency with 61 percent of the vote. He blatantly took Green and Liberal Democrat votes as both parties suffered substantial losses, especially Norwich Green Party which suffered a drop of 11 percent. In Norwich North, Chloe Smith barely held her seat in Westminster. The Conservative MP took just 507 more votes than Labour’s Chris Jones.

It wasn’t a good election for those hoping for a future in which many parties contest seats and work together to represent communities, but with obviously increasing support from young and old liberals, Clive Lewis must absolutely continue fighting for strong and aggressive liberalism from Norwich when he’s in Parliament.Continue Reading

YOUNG VOTERS – DAMNED IF WE DO AND DAMNED IF WE DON’T

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged anti-intellectualism, Brexit, Brexit negotiations, class, class divides, conservatives, cost of living, demographics, DUP, EU referendum, experience, GE17, generation gap, government, grades, graduates, housing benefit, hung parliament, hypocrisy, jeremy corbyn, Labour, lecturers, liberal ideals, Michael Gove, minimum wage, political economics, polls, property ladder, rent, snap election, student debt, student votes, students, Thatcherite, theresa may, turnout, young people, young voters.

by Alex Powell

Seeing the reaction to the snap general election result has been fascinating. For years, young people, particularly students, were criticised for not going out and voting. June 8th 2017 was the day we did. The result? A hung parliament that defied all expectations. In the lead up to the election, all the indications suggested that the Tories would win a landslide, even if the gap had begun to close in the final polls. In the end, this was far from how things played out, leaving Theresa May without a majority and forced to rely on the DUP to pass her key votes.

T IS FOR TERRORISM. T IS FOR TORY.

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged arms deal, complicit, daesh, Democratic Unionist, Democratic Unionist Party, disillusion, DUP, Foreign Office, government, Hamas, intelligence services, IRA, Iran, ISIS, jeremy corbyn, london, lone wolf, manchester, middle east, Northern Ireland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, tech companies, terrorism, The Troubles, theresa may, Troubles, Ulster, Ulster Resistance, US.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions terrorism, The Troubles.

Not only has Theresa May’s snap election gamble backfired spectacularly, but the possibility of a partnership with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has left a sinister stain on the government going forward. Lurid headlines have been a constant feature of the campaign, attacking Jeremy Corbyn and his alleged links to the IRA and Hamas. But now, ironically, it is the current government that has turned to terrorist sympathisers in order to shore up their position. Time will tell if those tabloids will apply the same standard to the government as they did to Jeremy Corbyn.

Within these developments, there are two worrying aspects that have emerged – both nationally and globally. The first is the ease with which governments are able to use the fear of terrorism to further their own agenda. The second is the ability of governments to ignore or cover up their complicit actions.Continue Reading

WHO ARE THE DUP?

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abortion, absolute boy, BLUKIP, Brexit, climate change, conservatism, conservatives, Counter Terrorism, creationism, cyber security, Democratic Unionist Party, detention bill, DUP, gay marriage, general election, Good Friday, Gordon Brown, hardline, homophobia, Ian Paisley, IRA, Irish Republican, jeremy corbyn, Labour, militia, minority government, national living wage, NI, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly, Orange Order, Parliament, peace process, pension triple lock, Peter Robinson, protestant, PUP, racism, religion, Rihanna, same-sex marriage, Sinn Féin, terrorism, theresa may, Troubles, UK government, Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Resistance, Ulster Volunteer Force, universal benefits, US Conservative, wheat fields.

by Zoe Harding

Content warning: article mentions terrorism, (anti) abortion, homophobia, racism

So, the election was fun, right? Even if you didn’t vote Labour (and fair enough if you didn’t), watching Theresa May fall from an unassailable lead in the polls all the way to a humiliatingly hung Parliament, in a blizzard of vague soundbites, invasive and inadequate policies and flailing attempts to smear the opposition, was still rather viscerally satisfying in its own way. Early Friday morning saw a weird sense of relief from many who expected a Tory landslide.

Unfortunately, early Friday morning turned to mid-Friday morning, and then suddenly dove back into the bad old days, with the announcement that a desperate May government had decided to form a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in order to form a government.Continue Reading

PASSING INTO HISTORY, LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE – MARTIN MCGUINNESS

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged army, Ballymurphy Massacre, Bloody Sunday, Bobby Sands, British, catholic, Chuckle Brothers, Civil Rights, Derry, DUP, easter rising, Gerry Adams, Good Friday Agreement, H-block, hunger strike, Ian Paisley, independece, INLA, IRA, Ireland, Irish, james connolly, Martin McGuinness, Michelle O’Neill, NI, protestant, PUP, resistance, RUC, SDLP, Shankill, Sinn Féin, Stormont, terrorism, TUV, UDA, uk, Ulster, UUP, UVF.

by Chris Jarvis

“I was proud to be a member of the IRA. I am still 40 years on proud that I was a member of the IRA. I am not going to be a hypocrite and sit here and say something different.

”I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that – and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.”

Martin McGuinness

On January 30th, 1972, 13 people were shot dead by the British Army on the streets of Derry – a city that was, and to this day still is, a part of the United Kingdom. The crime for which these 13 people were murdered by the British state was marching through their hometown to demand an end to internment without trial for suspected members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. Those interned were subject to torture as part of their detention. Bloody Sunday, as it came to be known, took place just one year after the Ballymurphy Massacre, where 11 people were killed across 3 days in Belfast.Continue Reading

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WHY THE TORIES DON’T CARE ABOUT NURSES

THE CASE FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM

CLIVE LEWIS MUST FIRMLY AND RESOLUTELY REPRESENT PROGRESSIVE NORWICH

YOUNG VOTERS – DAMNED IF WE DO AND DAMNED IF WE DON’T

T IS FOR TERRORISM. T IS FOR TORY.

WHO ARE THE DUP?

PASSING INTO HISTORY, LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE – MARTIN MCGUINNESS

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