Is the treasury fiddling while the music industry burns? The industry is worth a vast 5.5 Billion pounds a year to the UK's economy yet help for musicians, most of whom are freelance, is crumbs. A third of freelance members of The Musicians' Union say they will have to leave the industry, and 170,000 jobs are predicted to go by Christmas. We risk losing our world beating music industry and if it goes we won't get it back. Liz, Mickey, Declan and Simon discuss the desperate situation with Horace Trubridge - General Secretary Musicians’ Union, Jessie Murphy - freelance musician and led the protest on parliament square, and Luke Moore - freelance musician and composer from Liverpool.