“No to Manchesterism built on the backs of renters” — tenants tell Burnham ‘freeze the rents’

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Greater Manchester Tenants Union (GMTU) are holding a demonstration to demand rent freezes from incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Principles and evidence alike support their claims. GMTU’s demo takes place on 17 July at Albert Square at 6pm outside Manchester Town Hall. The event follows the first ever demonstration yesterday outside the proposed site for Burnham’s planned ‘Number 10 North’. Some 20+ organisations attended, demanding ‘More Than Manchesterism‘. The new PM officially takes office on 20 June, having waltzed the Labour leadership remarkably uncontested. He replaces woefully unpopular Keir Starmer, who cried goodbye earlier this week. So much for Number 10…

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DWP’s new AI jobcentre built a CV for a parrot, what will it force disabled people into?

Keir Starmer has launched the latest crap policy that he thinks will save his failing premiership: an AI jobcentre advisor – because that’s exactly what the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) need. DWP and AI needs to walk the plank The Prime Minister announced at London Tech Week that the DWP had developed the new ‘AI work assistant’. Starmer called the tool a ‘jobcentre in your pocket’ and said it would help unemployed people find work and help build them CVs. Science editor at The Times, Tom Whipple decided to give it a go, with a twist. He wrote on…

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