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PROMISED government funding for Britain’s crumbling bus services is a “drop in the ocean” compared with the value of cuts over the past decade, unions said yesterday.
Plans to invest £170 million in bus services, as well as pledges to make buses electric by 2025 and introducing “Uber-style” apps for buses in some areas, fall far short of what is needed, said Unite and RMT.
Since 2010, thousands of bus routes have been axed across the country, as funding declined by 40 per cent.
Since 2010, one in five firefighter jobs has disappeared alongside 30% funding cuts — all while climate breakdown brings record blazes and flooding. It’s time to fund our fire service properly, writes FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM
