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A repository for reports, opinions and bits of writing on labour, trade union and other issues by a union activist and retired social worker.

Friday 22 March 2013

Austerity and cuts: Why isn't everybody furious?

Speech to UNISON Edinburgh AGM 2013

Since this government came to power, this union and this branch have been banging out the message that there is a better way, there is an alternative to the cuts, to their privatisation, to their demonising of the unemployed and working poor, their demonising of young people, their labelling the elderly and disabled as scroungers, their pitiful argument that we can’t afford care for our most vulnerable.