{"id":24236,"date":"2020-10-14T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=24236"},"modified":"2020-10-14T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:06:01","slug":"cornwall-hung-out-to-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=24236","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall ‘hung out to dry’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cornwall has been \u00e2\u20ac\u0098hung out to dry big-time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by the lack of government support for the coronavirus-hit tourist economy and the shortfall in funding for local government, Unite said today (October 14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite said the latest blow are plans by Cornwall Council to axe 400 directly employed jobs out of a total workforce of 5,600 by March 2021 as a result of Whitehall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to pay for the costs incurred by Covid-19, leaving the council with a \u00c2\u014140 million deficit to fund statutory services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite accused Cornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s six Conservative MPs, including environment secretary George Eustice, of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098failing to go in to bat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for the county, which has some of the most serious pockets of deprivation in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy has been buffeted by the curtailed holiday season due to the lockdown, and local firms are closing or shedding jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornwall Airport has seen 36 job losses and cuts in hours for those remaining and it is still waiting for an answer from government ministers about its bridging loan. St Austell Brewery is cutting 60 jobs, while the Eden Project, which has been in receipt of so much public funding, has undertaken 169 job cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manufacturing sector is now being damaged by the failure of government to support many of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essential businesses. For example, PALL Aerospace is making an initial 80 highly skilled staff redundant, but may need to cut deeper and harder as the aviation industry is left to fail by Cornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Conservative MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite regional officer Deborah Hopkins said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bCornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public services and the economy are facing a perfect storm of rising Covid-19 cases and the ending of the job retention scheme (JRS) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c yet, Cornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MPs seem to be reluctant to go in to bat for the county, even though George Eustice has a seat at the cabinet table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCornwall Council is now planning to cut 400 jobs by voluntary redundancy, but, no doubt, if that fails, it will be compulsory job losses – and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because of the failure of central government to fully fund the authority\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s response to coronavirus,” she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThose in the jobs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 firing line are often the most experienced adult and social care professionals who are in the frontline for families hit by deprivation, and, quite frankly, a depth of poverty which should not be allowed in a country which is one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s richest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is worth noting that only 30 per cent of council work is carried out by those directly employed and 70 per cent of these services are provided by profit-hungry private companies,” Hopkins went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tory MPs are always criticising alleged council inefficiencies, but fail to make the connection that most of them are run by the private sector, so beloved by Conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe time has come for the Conservatives to stop wringing their hands and start making the case for substantial funding for Cornwall in the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tory MPs include George Eustice (Camborne & Redruth); Scott Mann (North Cornwall); Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall), Steve Double (St Austell & Newquay); Derek Thomas (St Ives); and Cherilyn Mackrory (Truro & Falmouth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Shaun Noble<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cornwall has been \u00e2\u20ac\u0098hung out to dry big-time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by the lack of government support for the coronavirus-hit tourist economy and the shortfall in funding for local government, Unite said today (October 14). Unite said the latest blow are plans by Cornwall Council to axe 400 directly employed jobs out of a total workforce of 5,600 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[816,1295,999],"wps_subtitle":"Cornwall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tory MPs \u00e2\u20ac\u0098failing to open the batting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for cash-strapped public sector and economy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236"}],"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=24236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24238,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions\/24238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}