{"id":6124,"date":"2015-10-05T17:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2015-10-05T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:21:55","slug":"hunts-disgraceful-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6124","title":{"rendered":"Hunt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098disgraceful insult\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Multi-millionaire health secretary Jeremy Hunt has \u00e2\u20ac\u0098kicked millions of working people, struggling to get by in the teeth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with controversial remarks that axing working tax credits is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098an important cultural signal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Unite today (October 5).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hunt was addressing a fringe meeting at the Tory party conference, when he implied that people who received the credits \u00e2\u20ac\u201c due to be cut next April &#8211; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work hard enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a disgraceful insult from the richest member of the cabinet to millions of people struggling to get by working hard for long hours in insecure employment,&#8221; said Unite general secretary Len McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn a country that already works some of the longest hours in the western world, these comments are simply an outrageous slur on the all too many workers juggling two and three jobs to put food on the table and a roof over their kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 heads,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHe should get his facts straight before he decides to kick this country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working people firmly in the teeth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHis comments put paid once and for all the Tories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ludicrous claims to represent hard-working families.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMr Hunt should withdraw his remarks immediately and apologise,&#8221; McCluskey went on to say. &#8220;There is nothing as insulting as wealthy cabinet ministers dishing out tax breaks to the super-wealthy, allowing massive assets to sit idle in bank accounts doing nothing for the common good, yet working people wait in fear for the letter telling them the government is cutting their income and ponder joining the foodbank queue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are the fifth biggest economy with one of the hardest working populations; the facts are that wealth is being hoovered up by an ever smaller clique, while the percentage of wealth that workers enjoy falls ever backwards. This is the obscenity of our economy, Mr Hunt, should be addressing.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-millionaire health secretary Jeremy Hunt has \u00e2\u20ac\u0098kicked millions of working people, struggling to get by in the teeth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with controversial remarks that axing working tax credits is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098an important cultural signal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Unite today (October 5). &nbsp; &nbsp; Hunt was addressing a fringe meeting at the Tory party conference, when he implied that people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[408,409,44],"wps_subtitle":"Millionaire minister kicks low paid in the teeth ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124"}],"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=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6126,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}