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PCS has a positive anti-austerity alternative vision

RIGHT-WING commentators love to present regulations and rights as a tangle of red tape operated by faceless bureaucrats. 

The right fails to realise that their Brexit will not be a great unravelling but a transfer from Brussels to Whitehall and Holyrood. 
Is the Westminster Civil Service equipped for Brexit? Of course not. Government departments are in disarray. 

While the Tory Brexit negotiations take place in secret, what is no secret among the workforce is that there is a coming jobs crisis. 

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