Con-Dems raze public services to the ground

20.10.10

Responding to George Osborne's comprehensive spending review, Unite joint general secretary, Derek Simpson, said: "This is not a spending review - it's a massacre. It's totally perverse to claim that cutting half a million jobs and razing our public services to the ground is good for this country. No matter how often it repeats that its actions are fair, this government is making a political choice to attack the public sector and, by doing this now damaging the whole of the economy long into the future.

"There is no evidence that public sector workers who lose their jobs will find alternative work in the private sector.  In fact these cuts will destroy nearly as many private sector jobs as public sector ones."