Right wing politicians throughout Europe and beyond are working desperately hard to establish a new, shared and ‘objective’ fact – that the collective benefits of social care, community welfare, freely-accessible education and equitable healthcare are no longer affordable in the context of the modern state. George Osborne’s recent explanation and defence of the coalition ‘reforms’ are a classic (possibly the classic) example of this shameful scramble to create a new “truth”… Click here to read the full blog post on the Cost of Living Website
