Daily Mirror

The rich get richer while we all suffer

- BY JOHN McDONNELL

IT is 10 years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the worst financial crash since the 1930s Great Depression and families are still suffering from Tory austerity.

The City became a giant casino. And here is the irony, the money pumped in to save the system through quantitati­ve easing inflated asset prices and many of the speculator­s, whose reckless gambling caused the crisis, actually benefitted from the crisis.

CUTS

But ordinary people are still paying the price due to the cuts agenda of Theresa May and Chancellor Phillip Hammond.

Firefighte­rs, police officers and other public servants have lived through years of Tory pay restraint.

The consequenc­es of austerity are laid bare in the Institute for Fiscal Studies report showing salaries are on average £800 lower.

People will be disgusted by this dramatic slump in wages, whilst those at the top make more than ever.

A Labour government would halt this. Labour in power will be a government for the many, not the few.

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CHANGE John McDonnell

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