Beth Winter sets out how never-ending cuts are destroying communities - and states the next Government must restore living standards including through funding pay and public services.
Tag: Budget
Labour needs to make it clear it is not backing ‘Austerity Mk II’ – Sharon Graham’s Budget response
“Politicians of all colours need to make different choices, including scrapping their phony fiscal rules. It’s time to tackle the super-rich and the profiteers."
Our tax system needs real reform, not cuts to inheritance tax for the richest – Jon Trickett MP
"The richer you are, the lower the tax rate you are likely to pay due to the many reliefs and exemptions available to those who can afford clever accountants" - Jon Trickett MP
A budget that rewarded the wealthy – Jon Trickett MP
By rewarding the wealthy at the expense of the poorest our society, this budget exacerbates inequality and does nothing to tackle the cost of living crisis - Jon Trickett MP.
The budget was an exercise in enriching the wealthy from the wallets of the poorest in our society – Beth Winter MP
Beth Winter MP tackles Jeremy Hunt's first full budget, showing just how out out of touch this Government is.
PCS research shows inflation-matching pay rise is affordable
“Our members won’t be taken for fools and this research emphatically proves that the government’s insistence that inflation-matching pay rises are unaffordable is ludicrous" - Mark Serwotka, PCS Union General Secretary.
Investment not cuts, the #peoplesbudget we need – Donna Guthrie, BARAC UK
"Over 10 years of Austerity, with cuts to jobs, welfare and public services... that has impacted the most on Black communities, women, the elderly, disabled and young people"
A budget that entrenches poverty instead of tackling it – Rebecca Long Bailey MP
"On a day when so many of Britain’s key workers were forced to strike over poverty pay, they were offered nothing" - Rebecca Long Bailey analyses the failures of Hunt's budget.
Yet another austerity budget – interview with economist Mick Burke on #Budget2023
Hunt’s optimistic and upbeat tone throughout his Budget Day speech was “massively misplaced,” as “the overall picture of the British economy is one of stagnation.”
Budget 2023… was that it? – The Trades Union Congress
‘Was that it?‘ - a Budget with no ambition, more of the same at best, and basically ignoring the most pressing problems facing the UK.