Amongst other things, the sick, the lost, the young and the jobless will suffer. No sign of the rich paying more tax or pet projects (like nuclear weapons) suffering:
Department for Work and Pensions: Roll-out of the Future Jobs Fund: £290m (previously announced as part of Osborne's £6bn cuts)
DWP: Six-month offer recruitment subsidies: £30m (previously announced)
DWP: Extension of Young Person's Guarantee to 2011-12: £450m
DWP: Two-year Jobseeker's Guarantee: £515m
DoH: North Tees and Hartlepool hospital: £450m
Department for Culture Media and Sport: Libraries Modernisation Programme: £12m
BIS: Newton Scholarships: £25m
Department of Health: Health Research Support Initiative: £73m
Ministry of Justice: Birmingham Magistrates Court: £94m
MoD: Search and Rescue Helicopters: £4.7bn
Department for Transport: Search and Rescue Helicopters - joint procurement with MoD: £2.3bn
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That's Tories for you. Personally I believe this whole reduce the deficit thing is a smokescreen to take a sledgehammer to what remains of the welfare state.
If Blair continued Thatchers work he at least did have a social conscience. Something (as we can see) Cameron isn't burdened with.
I totally agree. It's the 'small government' thing writ large, or what Klein calls the 'Shock Doctrine' of using any crisis to enforce a program of public service abolition, privatisation, free market economics etc. etc. The state should be reduced to guaranteeing the free market, subsidising private industry and defence.
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