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Friday 19 February 2010

Cut Now are Not the Way Forward

Today’s Financial Times contains an article condemning those who see cuts in public expenditure as the only way forward. Sixty leading experts in the economic profession believe that cuts at this time could simply lead the country back in recession. (see http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/75b2481e-1cb5-11df-8d8e-00144feab49a.html)

UNISONActive welcomes this contribution to the debate, and hopes that major organisation such as the BBC will now change their news agenda to admit the possibility that cuts are not simply inevitable, an narrative that they have consistently run for at least the last six months,