CUTS in public spending totalling at least one billion pounds can be expected during 1979-80.
Industry, Employment, Environment, Trade, and Education will all come under the axe. Double figure inflation, expected to top 15 per cent by the autumn, will mean even further reductions in services.
Environment Secrelary Heseltine has been telling local authority associations and unis that EMINTE must be immediate 'voluntary" recruitment, and that this will be followed in three months' time by cuts in staff.
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health, education, and housing were not privileges, but the rights of everyone.
In order to cut the welfure state now the Tories have to weaken that belief. In this they have been helped by the which introduced the fist serious unemployment among teachers for decades closed mosperais. a00 cu back on nurseries. Labour Ministers Britain's nutional Interests demanded sacrifices from Now the Tories are trying to Profitability is being put above all else; social need takes a poor second place. If people want education they must pay for i. If they want health care they must take out a private insurance scheme.
A surprised David Basnell, general the General and Workers Union complained to his union conference last week that Ministers had displayed • which never experienced before." Perhaps he would have liked aunion-cabinet consultation at Downing Street to work out the most slush public millions of people threatened with unemployment and massive reductions in essential social services, the fact that Ministers have not had a chat with them is not the are faced probiem of how to defend what they tave got and how to go on the attack so that they can meet their social The task now is to organise action workplaces and the community to fight these cuts, Labour councils who refuse to accept cats and who violate the Tories' cash limits must get the of the workers movement, from demonstrations and Also coming arc attacks on the natinnalised industries.