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RUSSELL BRAND joined 54 other celebrities, trade unionists, politicians and economists yesterday to pen an anti-austerity letter to the Guardian.
Actors Maxine Peake and Mark Rylance, politicians Diane Abbott MP and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and others attacked the government’s proposed new round of austerity measures.
The statement read: “In what we hope was his last Budget, George Osborne made a series of false claims about his economic record.
“The reality is that his priority is to raise profits for the corporations, top executive salaries and bonuses at the expense of ordinary working people.
“His achievement is the slowest ever ‘recovery’ from recession while those ordinary people suffer increasing hardship during the longest continuous fall in living standards since records began.“
That is the real Tory record of this Parliament.”
The signatories announced a national demonstration against austerity due to take place in London on June 20.
