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Save The Children UK are an integral member of the Robin Hood Tax campaign. Read their response to the CSR, by Gareth Jenkins, Head of Campaigns and External Affairs for Save the Children's UK programme.
"After all of the hype and fears of the last few weeks and months in the run up to today’s announcement, it would have been quite easy to see the Chancellor’s statement as encouraging, reassuring, even moderate in...
In the face of the doom and gloom of cuts being reported the Robin Hood tax campaign provided a welcome alternative for the media. A stunt on Monday created a stir in the media, with local and national press reporting the potenital of a bank tax to tackle the spending cuts announced yesterday.
Media interest was sparked after campaigners took to the treasury to bring the message to George Osborne that a Robin Hood Tax offers a real alternative to cuts...
The cuts announced in today's CSR will have a drastic impact on the lives of people living in the UK.
Helen Longworth, Acting Director of UK Poverty for Oxfam, shared some thoughts with us::
“Oxfam are pleased with the government’s commitment to invest more than £2 billion, so the Department for Work and Pensions can simplify the welfare system and made work pay. Forcing people to live below the bread-line should never be a...
We have responded to the CSR on Wednesday with a challenge to George Osborne: Actions must follow words. For all the talk of these 'tough decisions' we know there is one easy decision that could have saved a lot of the most difficult ones.The banks can afford to pay 20 billion more a year. George said today that he would impose the maximum possible tax on the banks. But so far the banks are only due to pay a dismal £2.5 billion levy....
