Campaign Against Cuts Gathers
06 May 2011 by Scunny Independent News
This Wednesday at highfield house on Francis street in Scunthorpe, the Coalition Against Cuts will hold an organisation meeting to determine where the cuts proposed by the Tory's in their budget will fall.
In a brief statement released earlier today Martin Copson said "We will be having an organising meeting next Wednesday, May 11th 7.30pm at Highfield House. With the news that the Tories have taken control of the council we need to look at where we go with the campaign as we start to find out what cuts they intend to make."
It's imperative that as a community we work together to fight the cuts the Tory's will make, these will hit people in Scunthorpe harder just so they can fund free car parking in Brigg.
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Comments
Glad,
That's right we should have kept quiet and let the labour group cut jobs and services. The Coalition of Resistance was and is right to oppose all cuts and to point to an alternative based on making those most able to pay to do so. What labour did was accept the need for cuts and did the Tories dirty work for them.
Unison has a duty to its members to fight for their jobs, whoever is making the cuts. It makes no difference to those being put on the scrap heap whether it is Labour or Tories putting them there. To blame them and me is to miss the point completely.
If the Labour group had put through a needs budget in cooperation with the trade union movement and local residents they may have had central government on their backs and lost the election, but they would have lost it on the basis of something positive. If you accept the need for cuts the logical conclusion is that the Tories will do it more efficiently than Labour (and enjoy it probably).
Not sure what your point is GLAD. You say the campaign to save the Lilacs and Scotter House was misguided, does that mean you agree with closure or do you just think that if we all just sit back things will get better. I think we should applaud anyone who is prepared to stand up in defence of services in the face of the attempts to dismantle the welfare state.
The Labour Party only has itself to blame by conceding the need for widescale cuts instead of being prepared to fight. UNISONs "publicity stunt", as you call it, was too little too late and I am sure the last thing they wanted to do was upset their friends in the Labour group.
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