Joel Benjamin is a campaigner for social change and part of the People Vs PFI campaign.
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Published in: ourNHSJohnson's hospital building, “seed money”, and how PFI never went away
There are good reasons to be worried that the planned hospital building programme might further indebt us to big...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy HSBC’s indirect donations to the Conservatives (and Buzzfeed’s dismissal as a 'conspiracy') matters to our democracy
There are serious questions to ask about the links between HSBC and the leadership of the Conservative party....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKForget tax hikes: plan B is citizens' debt audits
Before raising taxes, local councils should look seriously at auditing their astonishing debt repayments.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOsborne's "budget lock" is a scam to encourage more borrowing from the City
By continually restricting the available finance from central government Osborne is encouraging a boom in personal...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDispatches: how local governments are being fleeced by the banks on £15bn loans
Dispatches will tonight report on the latest banking scandal - the kickbacks and dodgy loans surrounding local...