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01/11/2011 :As senior LibDem figures say the Coalition’s economic policies are no longer working, Labour asks where do Reading’s own LibDems stand?:
As inflation hits 5.2%, unemployment is the worst for 17 years and youth unemployment the worst since records began, a group of senior LibDems have written in The Guardian today that "Out of responsibility to the country, Liberal Democrats must now tell the Conservatives that they will no longer support policies which are not working" and are calling for an economic “Plan B” to get the economy growing again.
And Reading Labour Party Chair Sarah King says it is sad that Reading’s 2010 LibDem parliamentary candidates Daisy Benson and Gareth Epps were not among them.
“I am glad,” she says, “that senior LibDems are now saying publicly what they must all know privately. The plans they supported when they joined the Coalition last year are not working: the economy is not growing but flat-lining, both the public and private sectors are shedding jobs, Britain is headed for the slowest recovery from recession in our history, the deficit is £46Billion more than George Osborne planned, and he needs to think again.
“Britain needs a Plan B and needs it fast, and I call on Daisy Benson and her colleagues in Reading to show their ‘sense of responsibility to the country’, and to this town, by joining publicly in the call for a Plan B. And to press Nick Clegg and his team to put their Cabinet jobs on the line and call a halt to plans that everybody knows spell years of hardship for the British people.”
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