Intervention will stop jobs being lost
15th September 2009
Unite joint general secretary, Tony Woodley, on Gordon Brown's
speech to the TUC in Liverpool, said: "The prime minister told us
what we all knew, that there will be cuts. The big question is
where those cuts will fall.
"The important thing is that we do not start attacking the
vulnerable - the sick, the elderly, our children - who desperately
rely on services to support them.
"We heard today that the new Labour law that 'the market rules
ok' is being rewritten to 'intervention rules ok'.
"That intervention is vital if we are to undo the damage caused
by the spivs and speculators who brought our economy to the brink
of collapse, putting the jobs and homes of millions at
risk.
"And it is intervention that will stop jobs being lost and a
generation of young people stuck on the dole. We must
remember that in the 1980s, only yards from where the prime
minister spoke today, people were rioting to end the scourge of
unemployment. We cannot go back to those days and Gordon Brown made
it clear today that this would not happen on his watch."
ENDS
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