{"id":1959,"date":"2014-10-21T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T13:10:41","slug":"failure-broken-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Failure and broken promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor George Osborne claims the economy is in recovery yet new statistics from the office for national statistics (ONS) show a much different story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Tuesday October 21) data shows revenues from income tax and wealth stalling as living standards continue to plummet and the recovery passes struggling households by.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite believes George Osborne will need to cut borrowing by 37 per cent if he is to meet his target.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGeorge Osborne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s track record is one of failure and broken promises,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Len McClusky, Unite general secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a dismal record and the figures show that his so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0098economic plan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is doomed and that the recovery is nothing more than an illusion for millions of people struggling to make ends meet,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Len.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excluding the effects of bank bail-outs, borrowing was \u00c2\u014111.8 bn, which was 15.3 per cent, or \u00c2\u01411.6 bn more than September last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis Tory-led government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s idea of recovery is giving tax cuts to rich, while hitting the vulnerable and the working poor under the mantra of work harder, get poorer,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Len.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is not the basis for a sustainable recovery,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bBritain needs an economic recovery that benefits the majority and an economy built on secure, decent paid jobs.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chancellor George Osborne claims the economy is in recovery yet new statistics from the office for national statistics (ONS) show a much different story. &nbsp; Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Tuesday October 21) data shows revenues from income tax and wealth stalling as living standards continue to plummet and the recovery passes struggling households by. &nbsp; Unite believes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"George Osborne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dismal record","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}