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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tuc-chief-predicts-horrible-2011.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber predicted 2011 is going to be a 'horrible' year" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-tuc-chief-predicts-horrible-2011.jpg" alt="TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber predicted 2011 is going to be a 'horrible' year"/></a></p>
<p>A senior union leader has predicted 2011 is going to be a &#8220;horrible&#8221; year, with cuts in benefits and public services and an increase in unemployment.</p>
<p>TUC general secretary Brendan Barber warned that thousands of public sector workers face redundancy, cuts in services caused by the Government&#8217;s austerity measures will make a &#8220;real impact&#8221;, and voluntary groups will have their funding cut.</p>
<p>In his New Year message, Mr Barber said: &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to pick out the unkindest cut of all, but a top contender must be the 10% cut in housing benefit that kicks in after someone has been unemployed for more than a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>The TUC leader warned that the Government could also have a horrible year, predicting growing anger about increased student tuition fees and cutbacks in public sector projects such as new schools.</p>
<p>&#8220;What is becoming clear to people is just how unfair the coalition&#8217;s policies are. Those who did least to cause the crash are being made to take the nastiest medicine with the worst side-effects.</p>
<p>&#8220;Spending cuts inevitably hit those on low and middle incomes, while taxes, such as a Robin Hood Tax and real efforts to deal with tax avoidance, can be targeted on those who can afford to pay.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yet even the modest tax contribution chosen by the coalition is VAT &#8211; the unfairest tax of all. The British people are never that interested in politics, but we do have a deep sense of fairness that goes across traditional party lines.</p>
<p>&#8220;As none of these policies were put to voters before the election, this could well be the year that the country starts to say no to government in a way that they have not since middle Britain made a previous Conservative government abolish the poll tax.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Barber said a demonstration in London in March against spending cuts looked like being one of the biggest events the TUC had ever organised, adding: &#8220;This is going to be a year when many people suffer, but it just could be the year when the campaign for change really gets going.&#8221;</p>
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