Job losses – Brighton needs Keynes not Cameron-Clegg  

You may have heard of the planned 150 job losses at Lloyds Group in the city - unions say far more. It shows how vulnerable our local economy is to the on-going economic crisis. We also face the bleak prospect of job losses in front line local public services such as education and social services.  A result of the utterly misguided Cameron-Clegg budget, with its savage and unnecessary public spending cuts. Cuts on this scale could plunge us back into recession Workers, private or publicly employed, taxpayers, businesses as well as those most vulnerable, who depend on public services, are all paying the price for this financial mismanagement. Conservative Brighton and Hove City Council Leader Mary Mears has gone as far as saying public sector cuts on this scale were necessary. I don't believe these cuts are necessary and neither...