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Article: GBP 40billion is still not enough for us to feel good POINTS OF ORDER
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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MINISTERS have only themselves to blame if today's announcements
about nurses' and teachers' pay fail to provoke rapturous applause
from either the recipients or the wider public. The Government has
spent too much of the past six months talking up the extra GBP 40
billion it intended to spend on health and education. It gave the
impression that this was genuinely new, genuinely extra cash that
would put right all the problems Labour inherited - low pay,
inadequate investment, long waiting lists, large classes and so on.
Now the truth is beginning to seep out: that money will continue
to be tight, and that hard choices will still be needed. Today's
above-inflation pay awards are only part of ...