VIDEO: Brendan Barber welcomes North West TUC’s ‘Proud to serve the public’ campaign

'Proud to serve the public’ is a North West TUC campaign to protect and promote public services in our Region. We believe public services are a vital part of the North West economy. They create jobs, stimulate growth and... Read more

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• £95 billion is lost every year through tax evasion and tax avoidance by big business and wealthy individuals
• Another £27.7 billion is uncollected every year by HM Revenue & Customs, because of cuts in staff
• Introducing a Robin Hood Tax - a tiny 0.05 per cent tax on financial speculators - could raise $400 billion globally
• Almost £2billion is being spent on privatising the NHS
• The public now owns several banks - their profits should be used to invest in public services
• Stopping the replacement of, for example, Trident, would save £78 billion
• Cracking down hard on the obscene bonuses of bankers – who caused this mess in the first place – would raise billions more.

Cutting public services only creates MORE unemployment and increases the benefits bill. Growing the economy and creating jobs in both the private and public sectors is the sensible way to achieve sustainable recovery.

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