{"id":6942,"date":"2015-11-25T14:54:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2015-11-27T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:39:41","slug":"a-wild-experiment-on-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6942","title":{"rendered":"A \u00e2\u20ac\u0098wild experiment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite general secretary Len McCluskey accused the chancellor of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Frankenstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 experiment that puts his ideological commitment to a surplus above the needs of the British people.<\/p>\n

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Responding to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (November 25) Comprehensive Spending Review, Len McCluskey said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bLike some economic Dr Frankenstein, George Osborne is conducting some wild experiment on the UK economy and the living standards of the British people.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Zeal not ideals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have never before been in a place where a Chancellor will pursue a surplus for no evident economic gain. \u00c2\u00a0This was a spending review that reflected his zeal not Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ideals which will hurt businesses and people struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe heard nothing today from the Chancellor about action to save our manufacturing and steel industries which are the bedrock of our economy.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe business department has been reduced to rubble sending a signal that this government has no interest in developing the higher waged, higher skills economy we urgently need.<\/p>\n

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Sleight of hand <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat we did hear was a sleight of hand on tax credits which will see 140,000 families on Universal Credit suffer a full cut now and falling incomes for many more from 2018.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe attack on affordable housing and housing benefit will condemn people to in-work poverty.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOnce again, with further education being squeezed, our young people will feel only the cold shoulder of this government when what they need is a helping hand.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf Osborne hits his surplus in 2020, even by one penny, it will be because he has razed to the ground the support and services we all rely on to keep our society safe and functioning.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bInstead he should be using historically low interest rates to invest our way to real, not phoney growth, based on decent secure jobs.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe country needs a statesman stewarding the economy through these tough times to secure a future fit for all, but instead has an ideologue putting his own job ambitions ahead of those of the nation.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHistory will take a dim view of this Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time in office and expose his ideological zeal to cut, rather than invest, as his weakness.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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