Osborne’s ‘march of the makers’ is beating a retreat
Manufacturing – the great hope for George Osborne to lift the UK economy from sluggish growth – is going into reverse.
Tony Burke
Website Tony Burke is President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions; a former assistant general secretary of Unite; Trade Union co-ordinator for the Morning Star newspaper and chair of the Campaign For Trade Union Freedom. He is a contributing editor of Left Foot Forward blogging on trade, international issues and workers’ and union rights. As well as LFF, he contributes to the Morning Star, Campaign For Trade Union Freedom website, and his own Power In A Union site.
Enterprise Zones are the dusting down of a failed Thatcherite policy
Enterprise Zones, the dusting down of a failed Thatcherite policy, shows the government has no strategy for real growth, just ad hoc short termism.