Jerry Hicks is standing as a candidate in the election for General Secretary of the UNITE Union.
He has made it clear where he stands on the issue of cuts.
He says “This is a crisis not of our making, we should not be paying one single penny, not losing one single job nor face any reduction in benefits or services. angry words will not be enough to stop the butchery to jobs, services and benefits we as ordinary people face from the Con-Dem government.”
As Jerry points out that, a massive £100 billion goes uncollected from big business and the very wealthy in tax avoidance, this is where the money should come from to pay off the debt. There is an alternative, the case has to be made, then we will need to fight for it not just campaign.
We must build our way out of the recession, more jobs not less, more public projects not fewer, and the money is there, it’s just being spent on the wrong things.
Bringing the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq would save billions of pounds and thousands of lives, coupled with scrapping Trident saving up to £75 billion.
Spend that instead on:
- £25 billion for building schools, hospitals and council houses
- providing 100,000 jobs in construction.
- £25 billion for ‘Green energies’, sea, solar and wind, creating up to one million jobs
That still leaves £25 billion for state pension increases making ours one of the best in Europe instead of being the third worse.