{"id":9102,"date":"2016-06-24T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2016-06-27T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:52:06","slug":"a-country-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9102","title":{"rendered":"A country divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In response to the vote by the people of the UK to leave the European Union yesterday (June 23), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, &#8220;Our country\u00c2\u00a0now faces profound change. The people have voted for it and it must be respected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut this\u00c2\u00a0 decision reflects a divided country.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is therefore beholden on the party of working people, the Labour party, to stand united to ensure that they deliver on their duty to protect jobs, our public services and living standards from the instability that may follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is evident that the Conservative party is riven \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it is down to Labour to offer unity and calm going forward; anything less will be to let down the people Labour MPs were elected to represent,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis campaign has uncovered real despair in many of our communities.\u00c2\u00a0 Too many feel that they have been abandoned by a political class that is not interested in their concerns and has imposed upon them an endless, grotesque austerity programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLittle wonder that millions of people expressed their frustrations in the only way that they could, which was to vote for fundamental change in our relationship with the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bPoliticians must now respond appropriately and in a way that satisfies the genuinely held concerns of the public,&#8221; McCluskey noted. &#8220;This includes looking at how best to deal with the difficult issue of the free movement of labour and its impact on working people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Addressing this despair must also mean a full and proper plan to reverse the deprivation that is blighting life chances because if our political leaders fail to step up to this then the forces of division will only grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the vote by the people of the UK to leave the European Union yesterday (June 23), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, &#8220;Our country\u00c2\u00a0now faces profound change. The people have voted for it and it must be respected. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut this\u00c2\u00a0 decision reflects a divided country.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is therefore beholden on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[486,465],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS: Leaders must address people's despair ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102"}],"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=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9103,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}