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Just two percent of Britons feel that the country is experiencing economic recovery and many believe that the living standards crisis will continue in 2014, a study shows.

According to a poll by Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC) published on Tuesday, nearly half of the 1,600 respondents wanted services that had been cut to be restored, and 20 percent of the voters said they expected the benefits of an economic recovery to be fairly shared across society.
Our new poll is bad news for the government. Voters do not expect to benefit from the recovery next year, do not expect their wages to keep up with living costs, and do not trust the government to spread the benefits of recovery fairly," TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said.
Moreover, "by more than two to one, they want to see services restored when the economy grows, not permanently cut," she added.

The union leader also criticized the government's austerity measures based on the poll.

"Voters accepted austerity as unpleasant medicine. But now they are realizing that what they thought were the unpleasant side-effects, are what the Chancellor (of the Exchequer, George Osborne) sees as a cure. Recovery seems to mean food banks, zero hours and pay cuts for the many, tax cuts and pay growth for the few at the top."

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