New Statesman - <![CDATA[Michael Meacher]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/michael_meacher en <![CDATA[Why don’t the super-rich pay down the budget deficit? ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/01/rich-pay-deficit-austerity-tax http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/01/rich-pay-deficit-austerity-tax Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:29:44 GMT Michael Meacher There is an alternative to ever-greater austerity for the majority.

]]> <![CDATA[Where does the European impasse now leave Britain?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/01/british-manufacturing-britain http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/01/british-manufacturing-britain Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:46:17 GMT Michael Meacher One month on, Cameron's veto looks an even greater folly.

]]> <![CDATA[The wrong questions are being asked about banking reform]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/banking-banks-credit-financial http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/banking-banks-credit-financial Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:42:11 GMT Michael Meacher How the Vickers Commission fluffed its lines.

]]> <![CDATA[The unfinished revolution ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/02/parliament-power-government http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/02/parliament-power-government Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:12:09 GMT Michael Meacher The steady decline in the status of parliament must be reversed.

]]> <![CDATA[How to cut the deficit]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/tax-deficit-government-raise http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/tax-deficit-government-raise Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:45:49 GMT Michael Meacher Tomorrow, we’ll be told there is no alternative. In fact, there exist several spending alternatives to cut the Budget deficit.

]]> <![CDATA[Found: a solution to the 10p tax problem]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/04/10p-tax-problem-revenue-labour http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/04/10p-tax-problem-revenue-labour Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT Michael Meacher Veteran Labour politician and former minister Michael Meacher suggests ways of offsetting lost revenue from the abolition of the 10p tax problem

]]> <![CDATA[Trident - Meacher responds]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2007/03/trident-vote-meacher-labour http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2007/03/trident-vote-meacher-labour Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:12:39 GMT Michael Meacher Labour leadership candidate and former environment minister Michael Meacher responds to the Trident vote

]]> <![CDATA[A revolution is possible]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200510030056 http://www.newstatesman.com/200510030056 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Michael Meacher A cheaper fuel cell or better solar panel could transform our energy future, believes Michael Meacher. So what, or who, is holding us back?

]]> <![CDATA[Now for an even newer world order]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200505090021 http://www.newstatesman.com/200505090021 Mon, 09 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT Michael Meacher Election: the future - world views. Michael Meacher on oil and the rise of China

]]> <![CDATA[Did Dubbya rig the election?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200411290018 http://www.newstatesman.com/200411290018 Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:00:00 GMT Michael Meacher Michael Meacher smells something fishy in Bush's return to office. The evidence of fraud is not yet conclusive but, given the Republicans' record, it is all too plausible

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