This week's emergency budget is an attack on public services, an attack on front line workers and an attack on the economy of Pembrokeshire. We currently have a fragile economic recovery and inflicting savage cuts now will have a negative influence on that. Labour were proposing cuts that would have seen 45,000 people put out of work and now thanks to the Conservatives that figure could be closer to 60,000. It is clear that the 2 Tory MPs representing Pembrokeshire have given little to no consideration for how their actions will impact on local jobs and local businesses. This is the worst budget we have seen in living history, our local MPs are clearly not on the side of ordinary working people in West Wales. Labour had already planned deep cuts but the Tory-Lib Dem plans will put even more jobs at risk. What is very worrying is whilst the Tories and Lib Dems spoke with relish of the cuts they are making to public services in Wales; they made no mention of looking at the way Wales is funded. We currently lose out on around £300m every year and under this government will only lose even more.
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