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[MichaelMcGuire]

35. Voting New Labour in England and Wales to fight the austerity measures doesn't make sense.

Their on record as saying:

"Labour 'can't pledge cuts reversal'

"Mr Balls said the party had to show it could maintain "fiscal discipline" if voters were to accept it offered a credible alternative to the policies of the coalition.

His comments came as Labour leader Ed Miliband used a keynote speech to declare he was ready to make the "difficult choices" necessary in economically straitened times."

"In his speech the Labour leader offered the example of Government cuts to the winter fuel allowance as one change a Labour government may be unable to reverse if the party won the next general election.

However, with the structural deficit in the public finances now forecast to continue beyond 2015, Mr Balls warned the belt-tightening would have to go much further."

"There is going to have to be cuts, there is going to have to be difficult decisions. We would have to have cuts in police, we would have to have cuts in the schools budget, we would have to have cuts in the defence budget.

"We can make no commitment to reverse any of the Government's tax rises or spending cuts because we don't know the state of the economy we are going to inherit and what the fiscal position will be." (1)

Whereas; in Scotland attempts to lessen the impact of the cuts.

Cosla joins SNP in £40m council tax benefit deal

"PLANS to cut council tax benefit will not go ahead in Scotland, after the SNP government and local council leaders decided to offset the change."

"First Minister Alex Salmond announced the Scottish Government and the local government body Cosla would provide £40 million to make up this shortfall for 2013-14 – meaning the 558,000 who receive the benefit will not suffer as a result." (2)



(1) Labour 'can't pledge cuts reversal

(2) Cosla joins SNP in £40m council tax benefit deal; http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/politics/cosla-joins-snp-in-40m-council-tax-benefit-deal-1-2245363