division_name: Economy and Jobs
motion: <p class="indent" pid="e38.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8216;but respectfully regrets that the Gracious Speech fails to put an end to a decade of austerity, to invest in the UK&#8217;s underfunded public services, or to scrap universal credit; notes the damaging impact that the four-year freeze in working-age benefits has had on families on low income; and calls on the Government to bring forward a plan to reverse the damaging impact austerity has had on communities in the UK, tackle the climate and environmental emergency, and reshape the economy to work for everyone by clamping down on tax avoidance, tackling insecurity in work by extending full employment rights to all workers, ending in-work poverty, and introducing a real living wage.&#8217;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e39.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;did Gordon Brown cause the sub-prime crisis in America? No.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e39.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;did what was necessary in a very difficult situation.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e39.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Today, I can confirm for the first time that a Conservative Government will adopt these spending totals.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e42.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There will be an impact on business one way or the other, some will benefit, some won&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e60.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We can do with state interference if the homes of the people can be improved or work be given to the unemployed, or bread to the hungry or hope to the uncared for poor&#8230;State interference has assisted wealth, monopoly and privilege long enough&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e62.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;restore incentives so that hard work pays, success is rewarded and genuine new jobs are created in an expanding economy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e64.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;In Amazon, there is&#8212;I am not sure if this is the correct expression&#8212;a rat race. There is always a fight for the target. You need to hit the target, and if you do not,&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e66.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Amazon has a reported turnover of &#163;207 million for 2011 for its UK company (Amazon.co.uk), on which it has shown a tax expense of only &#163;1.8 million, however it shows a European-wide turnover of &#8364;9.1 billion for its Luxembourg based company (Amazon EU Sarl) and a tax of &#8364;8.2 million.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e68.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There are two kinds of European Nations&#8212;there are small nations, and there are countries that have not yet realised that they are small nations.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e75.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;there is no limit to the imagination, innovation, ingenuity and leadership in the North.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e79.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the role of business rates as a source of local authority income&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e89.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Promote fairness in the workplace, striking the right balance between the flexibility that the economy needs and the security that workers deserve&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e89.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;serious risk to manufacturing competitiveness&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e119.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos.&#8221;</p>