Yeovil Labour Party welcomed Keir Starmer’s call for the government to give people “ a stake in the national recovery”. Local party Chair Terry Ledlie said “ There is a clear need for a national recovery plan that supports the rebuilding of the economy .We need a new start that will deliver growing prosperity, with a fairer share for all. People want to see economic growth supporting the creation of decent jobs, with an end to zero hours contracts and other bad-boss practices. Our NHS has does brilliantly and is meeting the challenge of vaccinating millions of people. They are supported by other workers delivering public services, including those seconded from the District Council to help administer the vaccination programmes. The government needs to recognise the role that these key workers are playing in beating the virus. Yet for the last ten years the government has effectively frozen their pay. This is an insult to those who have worked so hard to save our country. The chancellor needs to reward them fairly in the March budget.”
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Britain has just passed 100,000 Covid deaths and Boris Johnson says he accepts responsibility for all the decisions of his Tory government. Nearby Norway has had 550 and far away New Zealand has had just 25 and these are some of the countries that have now returned to a normal daily life. Here in the UK we’re amongst the worse in the world with no end in sight because there’s no strategy in sight just a bumbling ‘respond and see’. Johnson swung from herd immunity to testing then failing to test then opening all the restaurants then closing all the restaurants, then promoting Christmas then cancelling Christmas. Labour have been marking the sad day with calls for action and public inquiry.
