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We will not be part of a warped experiment
This new government of right-wing zealouts is determined to use Britain as a testing ground for extreme free-market policies, with us as the lab rats, warns JON TRICKETT
RMT strike placard reading We Refuse to be Poor Anymore at a rally in Glasgow on 26 August 2022

THE direction of this government has been made crystal clear by the new Chancellor.

In the House of Commons on Friday morning he announced a so-called “growth plan” that will turbo-charge the failed neoliberal experiment.

The new Chancellor set out his overall objective in the plan, stating that “the government must cut taxes, streamline the public sector and liberate the private sector.”

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