Think
about what's happening here in Manchester, projects to rebuild 10,000 homes in run - down areas axed, # 560m of transport schemes scrapped, sweeping cuts at Bolton, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale councils, 150 firefighter jobs at
risk in Greater Manchester Fire Service, # 7m of cuts in the police
force, up to 1,000 NHS admin jobs in danger and a local breast cancer helpline, that has taken 80,000 calls since it was set up,
about to be closed, because
health trusts will no longer foot the # 63,000 annual running cost,» he said.