| Friday 18 June 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Gavin Esler The Unite union has urged Liberal Democrats to tear up their membership cards rather than be associated with cuts in public spending. Unite has accused Lib Dem leaders of "falling hook, line and sinker" for an agenda of cuts in public services, a day after the coalition government cancelled 12 projects totalling £2bn agreed to by the previous Labour government since the start of 2010. Tonight we will be examining how the cuts, announced by Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander, are going down with the party's grassroots supporters. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said today that he was confident about the future of the Spanish economy, and praised recent government measures aimed at restoring it to health. "I'm confident. That's the main message I want to give," Mr Strauss-Kahn said after talks with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Tonight we will be discussing whether that confidence is misplaced or not. We have an interview with Stephen J Dubner, one of the co-authors of Freakonomics. Plus, today is the anniversary of two of the most celebrated speeches of World War II - Charles de Gaulle's BBC broadcast urging the people of France not to capitulate to the Nazis and Winston Churchill's "finest hour" address to the British nation in which he said that the battle of France was over, and the battle of Britain about to begin. Both of those speeches had the power to rally a nation, but what of speeches now? In this age of the internet and multi-channel TV does the power of words remain? Join Gavin at 10.30pm on BBC Two. | 
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