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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg poured out buckets of hypocrisy in the Commons yesterday when angry Labour MPs accused him of shoring up the Tories' war on the poor.
The shameless Lib Dem leader pleaded that he did not support all the welfare cuts and professed disagreement with the Tory target of reducing immigration figures to tens of thousands.
But when Labour MPs demanded that he resign, he replied that he must stay in place to help "clear up the black hole in the public finances" left by the Labour government.
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
