A NORTH WEST business leader has accused the Coalition Government of being “unbelievably naive” over the massive job losses in public services.
Jack Stopforth, chief executive of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, has also attacked the Con/Dems for failing to recognise how private firms depend on public services for business.
Mr Stopforth has cast fresh doubt over the ability of the private sector to create the hundreds of thousands of new jobs which will be lost from the public sector.
He said: ” The idea that the private sector can shake off the effects of the credit crunch and create employment on the scale of job losses anticipated in the public sector, is unbelievably naïve.”
Mr Stopforth has also warned that there is no recognition by the Government that many private firms depend for their survival on contracts and business which they have been awarded from the public sector.
If public services are cut, there will be a “knock-on effect” in the private sector as hospitals, schools and Town Halls are all denied the money they need to do business with private firms.
Mr Stopforth said the Government had “no awareness of the link between public sector services and private sector supply chains.”
The attack on the central plank of the Government’s economic policy – that private firms can spearhead the recovery – has underlined widespread fears of a ‘double-dip’ recession.
Read more about the reaction of business to the Government’s budget: Are we heading for a double dip?
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