s most prominent union leaders brendan barber of the trades union congress and his r.t. sarah first reports next the warning signs are all there. britain is being cursed towards an economic nightmare of decades long stagnation that's according to trade union leader brendan barber now he's called on the government to change course that's failed austerity drive now the trade unions congress represents more than six million which his workers and secretary general brendan barber has accused the conservative prime minister david cameron and chancellor george osborne of knowing very little of the person beyond the wealthy west london districts where they live he also said that their insistence on austerity is not going to affect the wealthy in these areas but it's going to be the poor he pays the price now he also spoke stratospheric inequality between the rich and the poor in britain we've come to one of the wealthier areas in london where we've come to the local church now the church here provides a twice weekly feed banks service that's given a service to people who are str