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BIRD’S WORDS

For 31 years I have been going on about how coping with emergencies was not enough and that we have to try and prevent poverty and need. Of late I have been going on about getting the government to test its safety nets, and to spend its way out of the inflationary crisis. Borrow more money to get us out of the abysmal reality that millions cannot afford to eat, pay rent and heat themselves.

The new administration that Rishi Sunak has brought in is looking carefully at balancing the books. In other words,

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