The video documents the issues facing the Community Links charity in Newham, East London as it struggles to deal with the cuts. The charity runs youth clubs, play schemes and community centres throughout the area and are seeing the effects of the cuts first hand as young people struggle to find work, benefits rates change and services disappear. This is the front line of the government's assault on the country. The area of Newham, the video tells us, is facing cuts of £75m over the next four years. A Robin Hood Tax, in which banks and financial institutions are taxed just 0.05% on financial transactions could pay for these cuts in just 1.7 days. This is further proof that the government's cuts are ideological, refusing to see any alternative to its rampant attack on the most vulnerable.
Over the next few weeks the impact of these cuts will become clearer, as we begin to face the harsh reality of spending cuts.
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