Politics in the News 2015
- Created by: Katie Beaumont
- Created on: 24-12-15 13:13
View mindmap
- Politics in the News 2015
- Jeremy Corbyn
- He did not attend his first Privy Council meeting as he was on holiday and is a republican.
- This will mean that the Labour leader cannot be briefed on security matters, until he attends the next meeting.
- This complicates efforts by ministers to use intelligence to persuade Corbyn to back British involvement in military action in Syria.
- He did not attend his first Privy Council meeting as he was on holiday and is a republican.
- This complicates efforts by ministers to use intelligence to persuade Corbyn to back British involvement in military action in Syria.
- Asked to step back from the Stop the War Coalition
- Tristam Hunt (former Shadow Education Secretary) wants this because it will cause even more divisions within the Labour Party
- Links with PGs and divisions within political parties,
- Some Labours MPs who backed bombing in Syria have been subjected to online abuse and death threats.
- Tristam Hunt (former Shadow Education Secretary) wants this because it will cause even more divisions within the Labour Party
- Investigatory Powers Bill (Snooper's Charter)
- Introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May
- Allows access to the personal internet use of millions of citizens and to mount to 'data mining' exercises.
- Will come under attack from civil liberties groups for increasing abilities of the intelligence services to obtain.
- Blocked by the Liberal Democrats in Coalition govt.
- Vows to make internet a 'no-go area' for the terrorists and pedophiles.
- The Autumn Statement 2015
- Set out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
- Red box contains the documents
- Britain suffering from austerity (cuts to front line services)
- NHS, Police and Education
- Sets out that welfare cuts will happen but slowly.
- Cut the police force by 20% BUT Osborne said he is protecting the police.
- Increase spending on education.
- Comes from taxation
- Projected higher tax receipts to scrap tax credits cuts and protect police budget.
- Get taxes back from big corporations
- ONE NATION TORYISM
- Give billions to private developers to build more houses
- Less money to pay the debt
- trying to ease and please more people
- Jeremy Corbyn
Comments
No comments have yet been made