The recent announcements from Westminster that the Government wants to see austerity measures and pay restraint applied to public sector pay immediately and unlike Northumberlands neighbours in Scotland are not interested in any catching up exercise to help patch over the current period of rising inflation and growth stagnation which will damage rural counties like Northumberland says Councillor Lynne Grimshaw.
“Northumberland’s market towns outside the main tourism areas will be hit badly by the Government stance against its own civil service, NHS staff and Local Government. Northumberland’s three largest employers sit in these sectors and with spiraling household budgets and family costs already damaging business spend, decline is around the corner for many.”
“One of the shocks to me is that a small amount of help has been offered to Universal Credit claimants (and rightly so), that's larger than the 2% pay rise being offered to many lower graded workers in the public sector. So I need to ask does this conservative Government with a small c have any monetary policy in place at all other than lets make the mega rich richer and leave workers, pensioners and those struggling on benefits striving both financially and mentally as the everyday pressure is enormous particularly with rising mortgage rates, uncontrolled fuels costs and companies using the situation to force up profits for their shareholders”.
“ The BBC has reported that eight out of ten people questioned by them are seriously concerned about the current cost of living crisis in rip off Britain. Petrol pricing and energy costs are areas where people talk about their problems all of the time, so let's have the Government on TV to explain their current policy to us all because what I hear is weasel words from top Tories to cover up the truth”.
“The
Government places a windfall tax on energy giants and gives it to
people to help offset their bills which to me is simply borrowing the
money as the energy giants get it straight back; but not only do they
get it back those same giants on a falling market for crude oil and
gas push up petrol prices at the pump to stretch their shareholders
profits further what if any faith can we have in a Government which
allows this to happen? Get talking truthfully Tories or resign from
office.
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