[Wing NUT bureaucrat, Stedman, are dangerous ones. Like…]
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Wing NUT bureaucrat, Stedman, are dangerous ones. Like right-wingers in some other areas, he maintains that the Tory Council is going "far beyond" the requirements of the Labour government's reactionary March White Paper on public spending cuts.
As a result his demand is for Shirley Williams to force the Tory Council to pull back.
REQUIREMENTS
But of course, the cuts are entirely in line with Callaghan and Healey's requirements in backing capitalism and pandering to the international investors - the fact they seem larger merely means that the Labour government did not at that time dare openly to impose the axe so severely.
The line that the cuts are "going too far" is merely paving the way for stabbing the fight should the Council partially concede and reduce the level of the cuts.
For the defence of education and the social services it is not a question of the scale of the cuts, but an absolute rejection of the right of the government to impose any sackings or cuts in service.
The demand must therefore be for the social service and education budget to be restored to its value before the cuts, and protected against inflation by a sliding scale of spending, rising in pace with increased costs, as assessed by trade union committees with full access to the accounts of the local authorities.
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