{"id":14673,"date":"2018-02-26T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T14:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14673"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:59:08","slug":"a-clear-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14673","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A clear choice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey welcomed today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 26) speech by Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit, saying it showed that people have a clear choice between a Labour Brexit putting people first, or a Tory Brexit that puts its own party interests above those of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bJeremy Corbyn has shown that people really do have a choice on Brexit,&#8221; said Unite general secretary Len McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOn the one hand, there is Labour which has pledged to build on the trading arrangements presently supporting millions of jobs in this country.\u00c2\u00a0A Corbyn government will also make it a priority to tackle the greedy bosses who have abused migrant workers to undermine employment conditions and attack the rate for the job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOn the other hand, there are the Tories who are quite clearly putting their own party interests above those of the nation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis excellent speech today will also appeal to the employers with whom I speak to on a daily basis, and who tell me that the chronic uncertainty brought about by the government is causing the investment tap to be turned off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bJobs, living standards and sustaining peace in Norther Ireland desperately depend on getting the best Brexit deal possible,&#8221; McCluskey went on to say. &#8220;But this government is clearly incapable of agreeing among itself let alone with our European neighbours on the shape of our future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe sooner that they are gone and Labour can get on with the job of restoring our standing as a country and deliver on our hopes for a fairer nation, the better.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey welcomed today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 26) speech by Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit, saying it showed that people have a clear choice between a Labour Brexit putting people first, or a Tory Brexit that puts its own party interests above those of the nation. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bJeremy Corbyn has shown that people really do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[486,360,872],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS welcomes Corbyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Brexit speech","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26374,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions\/26374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}