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sent to them in a ballot last month voted to say they wanted a decent pay rise and eight out of ten of them said they'd go on strike if they didn't get it so this budget completely and utterly let all of those people down and we now intend to plan a campaign of action with other unions to challenge what the government's doing cermak colvin's labor party going very big on the paradise papers and tax judging the tories keep on making the point that tax collection is up just by the numbers of your members going down in the sea revenue collection how do you explain the disparity. when i think what i think i said of the budget is this is here today gone tomorrow chancellor seems to me he may well be sacked that this budget did not talk about the huge questions whether it's about the tax gap of over one hundred twenty billion whether it's about public sector pay whether it's about the future of our public services and i think the reason is talk about the public services it needs and the n.h.s. was a great institution he's looking investigations into we have homelessness he's not
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doing anything about it he's not putting in the money to our local authorities for example under the cosh making his job cuts closing libraries cutting back on frontline services you mentioned the tax offices we have had a reduction in staff in tax offices from a hundred and one thousand down to fifty eight thousand have the amount of staff at a time where there are people who are void of aid or we don't collect tax because we are going after staff to do anything about it and i think therefore what was told me about this budget is that all chances done today is what he could get agreement on amongst his cabinet the real big questions of people cared about totally is ducked them and that's because the government i think is unstable is in chaos and for the people i represent and the millions and millions who are the majority of this country whether they benefit claimants they use the health service or send their kids to school has not answered the questions and been prepared to reverse the years of a stare it's easy. and actually stop pumping money and investment into our economy
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which is the only way to deal with these problems while the government made some concessions at least reviewing the numbers of cuts of your members in revenue collection tax revenue collection and you know me having illusions we know about the other two the government say that they are committed to the spending plans they made in twenty fifteen which means that they are on course currently to reduce further the staff in intimacy by another eight thousand over the next couple of years they are currently closing ninety percent of all of britain's tax offices taking tax offices out of whole swathes of the country and just having fifteen centers in the whole of great britain so it's a government that may say things in parliament but the actions they take tell us a very different story on a soft on tax dodging their soft on tax evasion but they like to be very hard on the poorest people who use our benefits system can see instinct with universal credit when what he really needed to do is to suspend the rollout of universal credit listen to all the experts and give us
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a decent social security system not one that forces people into debt and sees many people affected from the housing small to walker thank you once a much well while mark's a walker leader of one of britain's biggest trade unions may not have appreciated the latest u.k. government budget others were more sanguine those such as u.k. justice committee tory m.p. john howard who was also a trade envoy for prime minister to resume john thanks for being on going underground again what do you say to people this is just media is threatening the lives even of those the wonderful new ones position and bricks that one i think that the case that was put forward by a superior for example for the threats against her are to be deprecated i would use it give them all you want position they did vote for article fifty of course but now they say that there are big differences as well you know i i look touched the bill i looked at the detail of the amend. and so it was being made and quite
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honestly i can see that this was actually a real fight to the death over something that was actually quite interesting why do you think they say that the arbitrary date could be detrimental to our negotiations well that's that's an issue that we we still need to discuss i don't have a firm view up on that i've heard the arguments that there is a base being open open over that date that date is set in stone what i'd i agree that she said that in instant but nevertheless we still have to have a discussion about it and i can see the difficulties that might occur for example if we were down to the while often negotiations go on at the last minute and beyond the last minute and if you've got a drop dead date then it is not helpful to the course of the would you think of the announcement of the moving these european agencies the banking or the meds the one in the midst of our to go sheeting group says well i think you've got to look at the impact of that could have in the u.k. and the impact that could have in the u.k.
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is to make our our ability to bring forward new drugs much easier is the european med's it's a absolutely like to amsterdam absolutely because hundreds of jobs are going to be lost to the banking authority to paris and the mets in one week to excellent but as you've heard in today's budget for example we are creating huge numbers of high value jobs across this country and the success of this government since since two thousand and ten has been to create an enormous number of jobs over three million jobs for people in this country so i you know i'm i'm i'm not going to comply command by a few agencies taking their business away now i know that you are out in the jury and making friends i was there in order to have discussions to make sure that we try to change the perception of nigeria and to its enormous credit it has gone up twenty. five points in the world bank table of countries which is good to do
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business and to cause we did see that or if it tragedy though in the past few days as islam is movements. gather force that's what we hear only it's true we hear headlines but i don't think that the islamist forces in nigeria are gathering forces this is not going to be settled by military action it has to be settled by making sure that the country engages in growth that that growth is a spread across the country and they will offer the people that the poor people particularly in the northeast you offer them something that the islamists cannot offer them and that is a share in the potential growth of the future of the country that you are for believing david cameron and the british bombardment of a northern africa libya do you think african union countries are going to look good kindly to british investment and trade opportunities what i can tell you that has that britain and british opportunities are absolutely loved in indigestion
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it's a great place to to to go into and to do business the flights are always crowded you probably want to get a seat on one if you want to go there this week and it shows the enormous amount of mutual activity that there is between britain and nigeria how confident are you that the government is putting these feelers out to emerging economies given that britain presumably it's vital for both of us there are now twenty where we can most get the value out of out of the social discussion we have to get this right for all those workers over the decades getting the emmy these are the people or officials the bosses just we just don't and haven't really appreciated how their policy actually holds africa well i've not been looking at what european policy's been doing i've been looking at what british policy is being has been doing and i think both was but but the way in which british aged to nigeria is tied in with. the
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other activities a bit new to him is a fantastic a statement of how seriously with god's this sort of issue she will be using the aid budget for these new trade deals what we will be using the aid budget for us to do things like making the economy come right like making sure that we have conversed ability of the council because that is not only good for us it's good for mind here as well and that's what i say you know there is tremendous amount of mutual activity that can be conducted in places doesn't it nigeria which we should be making the most of john paul thank you after the break. sixteen years on from nine eleven with millions killed wounded or displaced in the name of the war on terror you speak to four artists about how those explosions continue to reverberate around the world old is a book coming up about doing going underground. this
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welcome back nine years ago this month the u.s.s. strikes has a wedding in afghanistan killing thirty seven civilians mostly women and children nearly ten years on fourteen thousand u.s. troops hundreds of british troops remain in afghanistan arguably just continuing the nato legacy of bombs and displacement in the name of the war on terror the continuing wars in the middle east states of a lens government sanctioned torture are examined in a new exhibition of the imperial war museum in london deputy editor sebastian ppaca went to speak to some of the artists featured at the exhibition. on september
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eleventh two thousand and one fork warden into the attacks in the united states killed nearly ten thousand people but sixteen years on with millions killed displaced or wounded in the name of the war on terror how else of these explosions continue to reverberate around the world age of terror since nine eleven is a new exhibition at the imperial war museum it brings to get the forty international artist to examine increased government surveillance multan killing machines and the fact that nato was an attack in the middle east the first part the exhibition nine eleven examines reactions to the time i spoke to an artist if i'm to far. new york about how his piece of the twin towers was partly inspired by growing up in the cia back to take the ship of general pinochet right when i finished the piece. i realized that it would. it would be interesting to make
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a real connection the way the twin towers where when before the terrorists attack. so i decided to go to to install it on the floor in india exact same orientation that the real twin towers were so that way it will be a. connection to the actual towers basically when i when i installed the pieces on the floor they'd be in something else they became i i j gun big holes on the ground and something more going at that to like a masquerade especially because i have this in the memory and experience i grew up in these big data into i have that image in my mind you know so the first time i see something like that i kind of connect is that a clear connection to my my memories when i was out a child seeing the nuance and when they did they would form like. ten
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seven fifteen disappears you know people that were disappeared during dictatorship in this mass graves and he was a gigantic call on the ground you know so when i saw the pieces on the floor i say wow this is this is this is like that this it is is more like a connection to the people who died in the twin towers rather than rather than just a connection to the to the footprint of the pieces when my beaches have. political gone and it's because by connecting different objects and different context or different pieces of history you create a narrative. and then ira is socially connected to political issues i think it's important to we political and it's important to protest and it's important to think art can change the world but if it's a slow process you know that's what i always think and that and i think it's better
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for you not to think that it may take two hundred years for your piece to be. historical change but it will be but little by little the next body exhibition looks not only intense because of government surveillance post nine eleven but the use of torture the potential human rights abuses the cane with an ever growing stake control i want to cap phillips but cannot phillips the studio to ask her about their peaks head of state by two thousand and seven. a lot of the legislation has been changed very rapidly that domestic legislation. by blair's government and a lot of it was curtailing civil rights the rights protests and there was a lot of increase in police surveillance of civil groups and and we were very much
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as citizens as artists and works meant very much for general public so all of these issues. very big on our sort of list of inspirations of what's made it work but so the piece is very much about trying to join actually the disaster that we had unfolded in iraq from the invasion and the ongoing up occupation and have also impacted on the british domestic public the worst made of news paper it's printed on newsprint and newspapers. and all of the imagery and all of the figurative imagery is also from press photography so we were trawling through endless. image files that were coming out of the news agencies which is what we've been doing in the previous years but mainly focusing on iraq
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and this time we were looking a lot at what was happening domestically at the same time and we were looking at. imagery of prisons because the prison services were being rapidly privatized as well before us military contractors and private security sector was on the rise massively. we were looking at there's a lot of. development in surveillance technology at that time as well. which we were trying to look at but it's quite is quite hidden thing as well there's a big c.c.t.v. camera that sort of sprung in the middle of the workers three meters by three meters and this huge. mast with c.c.t.v. cameras coming out there's also individuals in there john charles de menezes. who was murdered. by the british police without any apology and his death
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followed straight after the well they called the seven seven bombings in london that was in two thousand and five. and his death is kind of like evidence of the the disaster of intelligence being built out of i mean in a panicked way this was the pieces were representing the destructive nature of reactionary reactive behavior by the authorities and you could say the same thing about the u.s. response to nine eleven as well i mean that reactive is it just is ended in such a huge monumental the ongoing unfolding disaster that we're still living with. the long terror came every day to valid killing machines with a reported fifteen thousand civilians killed when american drones around the world i spoke to jim bricks in mexico about why he depicted a drone on an afghan rug the project really started years ago i thought i was
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interested in this and i'm going to start on with. kind of really distancing the experience of war is something that struck me initially when i was a kid watching the gulf war and it was kind of this televised made for t.v. war footage of just these crosshairs and targets and so i began investigating how to make how to make it into a carpet because i saw the carpet as being something that were. representative of. social history and the culture of the middle east and specifically iran and afghanistan so i began researching how to make these carpets but in two dozen thirteen i had a chance actually traveled to afghanistan and i made contact was in garbage makers you know this is years later so drones it now i'm sure it's the scene and i decided to work with that as a teen i came across a chart that depicted all the drones currently in use by the militaries across the
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world and i began discussing with the car the makers as to how to how to transform that into from a graphic that's not on a computer screen into something that's actually had made how do the people of afghanistan feel about the drones the your pick thing well when we did interviews in two dozen thirteen i when i returned to their teen. i don't speak dari that i like to persian they speak their they're working with translators and let me do the videos i mean people war is is unfortunate part of their their daily lives. you know so i think what was surprising to me. was the opinions about americans about the u.s. you know in in in the united states like the kind of liberal position is that it's an invasion in afghanistan it's not seen that way certainly in the south in the pashtun areas that it's there's a lot of dislike towards towards united states but also i think you know your
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people are trying to make a living might have a very different opinion you know people who are farming the land people who're. making those cards you were making other crafts they were there just trying to survive and you know if they're religious suddenly invaded by are turned into a training camp for the taliban you know the drones are actually a good thing so i think it's important to kind of realize the complexity of the place and. yet at thirty the u.s. in a drone sort of come in our innocence in history i think in general ward singers that you know some people don't like the imagery because it reminds them of the constant conflict their countries don't and since the late seventy's the final theme of the exhibition not only looks at the destruction of thousands of homes by nato was in the middle east but the mental and physical damage done to the soldiers who are returning home of the fighting for tony blair and george bush jamal penn twenty is an iraqi kurdish artist whose piece looks at the legacy of saddam hussein and is
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this projected to show the war going to show the people there's a not in by killing only because the system and the ideology of saddam was inside the people and also in the psychology of the people i sing after saddam there's come many other saddam's you can do same project around the all the middle east which is a really big and syria and other countries you cannot make a change a county may just take all the leader my project could mean to me. because one of. the house in when i was a failed all sitting. around that and myra and she was only alone in the very we little and all palace but destroyed by war and used. all the water. she told me one days this house was full of the full
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it was a hole. full of that mutual stories but the one to this day only hears a lot still in this house. i imagined how you can like change your way even is to say that my picture you can't change is like a change you want to sing inside they want to trim i bring my all here finally around here dancin there's a lake up so i appreciate how would. you see life inside this house you see whole the joy when things change in the nine eleven in the middle east especially in europe and libya. and other countries there are many problems came. even for the future when something has happened was. we had but he actually
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for example all the tourists people was not tourist all the best people was not that all the good people are not good by reaction and by acting change of mind of people even isis even al qaida came from there. reaction of the people destroyed the minds of people in washington minded people to become an exit money on this people did. twice part of this is that forty percent of the united states part of the politics. as a country is who was supported by the. war is a part of the mystery really you live in this war and you can see the reality is media only current shoulder very that one side of the line. media cannot cover like as not in light of all the people. and always to show darkness
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but behind all the war behind all the problem is there is the many many others. and you can't see the light inside and you can't see the hole inside the war. you have it is about the impact of their speaking to iraqi kurdish artist jamal penn join the band that said for the show will be back on wednesday when we are told morris the former attorney general to tony blair about britain's it today are still irrelevant it's losing its seat at the international court of justice for the past few days till then people don't rise as the media will feel wednesday seventy two years to the day of the establishment of the republic of yugoslavia before nato nations bombed and destroyed the country in the making ruggedly then rewriting history to play with the vigils at un courts instead of rapacious neo con humanitarian intervention.
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they call me a useful idiot i mean you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on t.v. there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop there you'll ban me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one outstretch dildo right i should be sent to the town of london because i'm to try to break me although we'll put up with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me more skill ross and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out in good company i'm in good company you're going to be you want to do this because we're free thinkers.
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