[OccupySheffield] ITV Calendar News Interview: Austerity Isn't Working: Join the queue on Budget Day

Sat Mar 10 11:31:41 GMT 2012

Hello

We've just received this request from ITV Calendar news in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (see below).   If you think you fit the bill, or know anyone who you think might do, please contact me or Liz Fordham directly.

David KirkhamSheffield Uncut

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 Subject: RE: Austerity Isn't Working: Join the queue on Budget Day
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:50:34 +0000
From: elizabeth.fordham at itv.com
To: sheffield.uncut at hotmail.co.uk

Thanks for sending this through David.

I’m just planning our budget
coverage at the moment. Do you know if anyone from the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region is
attending this? I’m looking for a family who’d be willing to talk
to us about how the budget announcement will affect their household budgets…someone
who’ll be willing to speak openly about their finances. Do you know of
anyone who’d fit the bill?

Many thanks,

Liz

Elizabeth Fordham | Planning Editor | Broadcast | ITV plc

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Sent: 09 March 2012 13:02

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Subject: Austerity Isn't Working:
Join the queue on Budget Day

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        Whether you’re unemployed
        or fortunate enough to still be in a job, join UK Uncut’s Austerity Isn’t Working Queue
        outside Downing St
        at 11am on Wednesday 21st March and demand an economy that bails out
        people instead of banks.

        In two weeks, George Osborne, the man in charge of Britain’s
        sinking economy, will present his government’s third austerity
        budget.

        In it, he will set out a continuation of the cuts that have decimated Britain's
        public services and put up to 6.3m
        people out of work.

        George will tell us that 'there is no alternative' to his
        slash-and-burn economics; that austerity is the only route to recovery.
        But even George can't have failed to notice one thing - austerity isn't
        working.

        Whilst George attempts to get us to focus on Britain's rosy relationship
        with the ratings agencies, he knows a
        million 16-24 year olds are out of work. As he bangs
        on about low borrowing costs, Britain's female
        unemployment rate has hit a
        25 year high. Austerity may be working for the bond
        markets and the banks, but it isn't working for Britain.

        This Budget
        Day, don’t let George get away with it. Whether you’re
        unemployed or fortunate enough to still be in a job, join UK
        Uncut’s Austerity Isn’t Working Queue outside Downing St
        at 11am on Wednesday 21st March.

        By recreating of one of the most iconic
        images in British political history, together we can
        make sure the photos in the papers aren’t of George’s smug
        face, but of a scene that demonstrates the human cost of the
        government's failed austerity policies.

        The queue will only go ahead if 630 people sign up to this
        Facebook event by the evening before the Budget -
        that's one person for every ten thousand Britons seeking full time work.
        Start spreading the word at your local Jobcentre and beyond.

        On March 21st, be outside Downing
          St at 11am. Join the queue that will wipe
        the smirk off of George's face and demand an economy that bails out
        people instead of banks. Austerity isn't just unfair and unnecessary -
        it isn't working. Britain's
        better off with the alternatives.

        See you at Downing St.

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