Our response to the government's Spending Challenge
19 August 2010
“This sort of public engagement exercise is designed to reinforce the message from the millionaires in the Cabinet that ‘we are all in it together’, while they plot 25-40% cuts which will adversely affect the most vulnerable in society, attack public services and drastically increase unemployment.
“Ideas such as putting prisoners on treadmills to generate electricity and using bounty hunters to track down benefit cheats are only slightly more ridiculous than the coalition government’s proposals to burden an overstretched and under-regulated charity sector with its Big Society programme, closing courts, attacking benefits and talking about localism while scrapping the Government Office Network.
“There is an alternative way to tackle the deficit by collecting £123 billion in evaded and avoided taxes, investing in public services and creating jobs.”
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