Tag: robin hood tax
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The Tories should introduce the Robin Hood Tax if they truly want to help the poor
The emergency budget is to be on June 22 and David Cameron has already begun to try and soften the ground. The pain, he states, will be felt by everyone. This is worrying and could be avoided by the introduction of the Robin Hood Tax, says the ippr. One of the ways of raising much…
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Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through….Hyde Park!
Speaker’s Corner is a famed place for freedom of speech, where the good, the bad and the ugly have all enjoyed the freedom to speak openly about their passions, causes and beliefs. On the very sunny Saturday just gone, LCID went down to hear Robin Hood and a Banker battle it out on soapboxes –…
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Cameron MEP’s extraordinary rant against Robin Hood tax
Left Foot Forward reported on Friday this extraordinary rant against the Robin Hood Tax: One of David Cameron’s MEPs has launched an extraordinary attack on the Robin Hood Tax,hailed as a tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, in Britain and abroad, raising hundreds of billions each year. Tory MEP…
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LCID reacts to the 2010 Budget
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling today delivered the final budget before the election – and Britain has kept its promise to the worlds’ poorest. The Department for International Development will have a budget of £7.8billion in the next financial year, up from £6.3billion in 2009-10. This £1.5 billion increase will provide vital…
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Tories call Robin Hood tax “hopelessly naive” – despite its backing by world economists
Our latest post for Left Foot Forward. It is just two days since the “Robin Hood” tax launched and already 23,000 people have voted in favour on the campaign’s online poll: 13,000 signed up by email and 21,500 joined the Facebook Fan page. The Financial Times reported yesterday that Gordon Brown believes the IMF will…
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LCID backs the Robin Hood Tax
Today sees the launch of the Robin Hood Tax campaign by many of the key organisations responsible for the Make Poverty History campaign 5 years ago, including Oxfam, the TUC, ActionAid and Save the Children, backed by Comic Relief founder and film maker Richard Curtis. LCID would like to urge all party members to get behind…
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