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From The Socialist newspaper, 2 June 2010
Them and us!
Lady Scotland, former attorney general, was fined £5,000 earlier this year for failing to keep proper records of her employment of a housekeeper. Loloahi Tapui had outstayed her student visa and was not entitled to work in the UK.
But instead of the Baroness being left to bear responsibility for this transgression, Loloahi has been sent to jail for eight months! Not only that, she was being paid a mere £6 an hour yet she has been ordered to pay £1,600 in prosecution costs and the defence costs are still being calculated.
Somehow the Baroness is claiming to be the victim in all this, yet she's only been fined what is a paltry amount to anyone who has had a sniff of the Westminster gravy train these days. Whilst the massively exploited worker is in prison.
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In The Socialist 2 June 2010:
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Socialist Party news and analysis
No to privatised academies: Defend public education
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Interview with sacked Telegen workers
Youth Fight for Jobs: More trade unions add their support
Anti-racism
Cardiff says 'no' to the racist EDL
Housing crisis
Gateshead tenants demand decent homes
Socialist Party LGBT
Socialists campaign for Pride not profit in Birmingham
Marxist analysis: history
Margaret Thatcher: Why workers cannot forget
Scotland
Minority representation in Scotland for Westminster coalition of cuts
Socialist Party Scotland to be launched
Socialist Party workplace news
Fighting council cuts: Planning for united strikes in Kirklees
PCS conference Defend the public sector
Coventry - time for mass action
Will the councils fight the cuts?
University and Colleges Union: Congress votes to fight
International socialist news and analysis
Jamaican armed forces surround and storm poor neighbourhood
Workers' suicides: The human cost of an iPad
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