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Comment on the Chancellor's autumn statement today (Wednesday).
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date: 5 December 2012

embargo: For immediate release

Commenting on the Chancellor's autumn statement today (Wednesday) TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

'When you are self-harming you should stop, not look for better sticking plasters.

'With the economy still scraping along the bottom, unemployment set to rise and the Chancellor missing his own debt target, we need a fundamental change in direction, not more muddling through.

'Cuts, austerity and squeezed living standards stretch seemingly without end into the future. What is missing today is any vision of a future economy that can deliver decent jobs and living standards - it's pain without purpose.'

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