National Delegate Conference 15-18 June 2010

Challenging the cuts myths and lies

Jane Carolan

Spreading the burden evenly? For the Tories, that might mean the moat gets cleaned less often!

That was how Jane Carolan of the NEC described government claims that the pain of any cuts will be shared.

Opening the keynote debate on the economy, she talked of all the myths and outright lies that have been spread about the financial crisis and who is to blame for it, but noted: "The most repellant lie is that the cuts are inevitable."

Conference agreed a wide-ranging strategy building on the million voices campaign to oppose the right wing agenda of cuts, privatisation and deregulation, which would exacerbate further hardship.

It will continue to advocate and develop an alternative agenda based on fairness, good jobs, quality public services and the strengthening of democratic regulation and control of our economy.

It will campaign for fairer and effective taxation, including local taxation and will build alliances to promote this agenda nationally with the TUC, STUC, ITUC and WTUC, and internationally.

It also called for branches to get fully involved in the campaign.

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