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Category - budget 2010

23 Jun 2010

An unbalanced budget
23 Jun 2010

Christians criticise budget for imposing austerity on the poorest

Policy experts and commentators from the churches and Christian organisations have criticised the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government for a budget which hits the most vulnerable hardest.
22 Jun 2010

On a collision course with austerity

Today the public, and particularly the Liberal Democrats, appear nonchalant as George Osborne steers the ship of state straight towards the Austerity Iceberg.
22 Jun 2010

Government accused of imposing cuts through ideology not economics

The Government's emergency budget will have taken a gigantic £40 billion out of the economy by 2014-15 at a time when the recovery is fragile, and cuts will hit those with fewest resources hardest, say critics.
22 Jun 2010

Environmentalists not impressed with Osborne's gestures

Environmental analysts are less than impressed with the green credentials of the government's emergency budget statement in the House of Commons today.
22 Jun 2010

The kindest cut...

While analysing the welter of information coming in about the coalition government's first budget, including responses from a range of civil society organisations, one small cut has been overlooked.
22 Jun 2010

Poor have missed out in Chancellor's plans, says Oxfam

The government has missed an opportunity to raise more money to protect the poorest in the UK from spending cuts and VAT rises, and help tackle global poverty and climate change, says Oxfam.
22 Jun 2010

Poorest are picking up banking bill in Budget say tax campaigners

Campaigners have said that the Chancellor's bank tax is 'disappointing' and that the budget is 'taking from the poor to give to the rich'.
22 Jun 2010

Union leader says emergency budget fails the fairness test

The Budget got the big judgement about the economy wrong and cannot live up to substantial claims to be fair, says Trades Union Congress General Secretary Brendan Barber.
22 Jun 2010

Cuts 'destructive and unnecessary', says the Green Party

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MP has challenged the basic logic of the Coalition Government's massive public spending cuts, saying they are both "destructive and unnecessary."

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