CHANCELLOR GEORGE OSBORNE LAST 25 of 50 CUTS

The question:  Where did the money go from all those cuts and sales ?

The Tories still ended up with an addition £500billion debts.


Here are the last 25 cuts the great Chancellor George Osborne done including the most vulnerable, especially the disabled people. Oscar Bennett of the Daily Mirror puts the list of the 50 cuts together. You will find them in two section -- part one and part two.

It is really important to think about which party you cast your vote to. It is not meant a hateful propaganda but the Tories already promise more cuts of £70million for the next five years.  It would be on top of the previous cuts and it would mean a complete devastation for the British country and its people.

The past five years of the Tory-led Coalition Government have been marked by austerity policies which have harmed some of the most vulnerable in society.

Disabled people, single parents, and those struggling to find work have all faced cuts to vital benefits, but these groups are by no means the only ones to have been victims of George Osborne’s policies.                                 

26) ‘Youth’ Employment and Support Allowance: According to the TUC, this allowed people disabled in childhood to qualify for contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance without having paid National Insurance Contributions. The government impact assessment indicated that 7-8,000 disabled people, a majority with mental and behavioural impairments, would lose some or all of their benefit.

27) Education: 52% cut in capital spending for education across the UK between 2009/10 and 2013/14

28) Nurses: According to figures released in August 2013 there were 7,000 fewer qualified nurses than in May 2010, excluding health visitors, school nurses and midwives.

29) Flood defences: In November 2014 the National Audit Office revealed spending on maintenance of flood defences has fallen by six per cent in real times since 2010, with overall funding down by 10 per cent in real terms once one-off emergency funding was taken out of the mix. 

30) Passport office: According to Labour, there were 4,017 workers in passports office in 2009/10. By last year, there were just 3,444. The Tories denied this reduction was the cause of last year’s passport renewing backlog.

31) Prison officers: Figures published last October showed the number of officers at public-sector prisons in England and Wales had been cut by 41 per cent in less than four year. This included 1,375 posts axed when 15 public-sector prisons were closed during the period. Some £900million has been slashed from the prison’s budget since 2010

32) Libraries: Funding reductions to local government has seen pressures on libraries. There are currently 4,145 libraries in the UK, down from 4,482 in 2009/10, according to Public Libraries News

33) Arts Council: In 2010 Arts Council England saw its budget cut by 29.6%.

34) Public Sector Pay: George Osborne froze public sector pay in real terms back in 2010. Since then they have been promised just a one per cent rise from the Spring.

35) Royal Mail: the sell-off of the Royal Mail counts as cut as the Government woefully mismanaged its privatisation, costing the taxpayer £180million.

36) Mental health: 3,300 fewer posts in mental health nursing since 2010, according to the Royal College of Nursing.

37) Mental Health: 1,500 fewer beds for mental health patients than in 2010, according to a Community Care and BBC News investigation.

38) Infrastructure: Money spent on schools, hospitals, roads and energy projects has fallen by at least £15billion since 2010

39) Universities: By 2013, funding for universities had been cut by more than £800m. The Government increased the cap on how much universities can charge for tuition fees from £3,290 a year to £9,000 in 2010.

40) Tribunals: The Justice Department cut funding for employment tribunals in 2013. The changes meant workers who wanted to lodge claims against their employers could now face costs of up to £1,200. On Monday, more than 400 barristers wrote to Justice Secretary Chris Grayling calling the fees a “barrier to justice”. Since their introduction, tribunal cases have dropped by 60 per cent, they barristers said.

41) Access to Work: This scheme helps those with disabilities, illness or mental health issues into employment. It pays for the cost of specialist equipment, support workers or fares to work if someone is unable to use public transport. But from October this year, workers will not be able to claim support worth more than one and a half times the national average salary, currently £40,800-a-year. It will save the Government just £3million, and campaign group Disability UK described the change as “short-sighted”.

42) Careers advice: Connexions, the government-funded careers advice programme, was axed in 2012. It is now down to schools to provide their own careers’ advice to pupils. An Education Select Committee report published in 2013 said: “The Government's decision to transfer responsibility for careers guidance to schools is regrettable. We have concerns about the consistency, quality, independence and impartiality of careers guidance now being offered to young people.”

43) Social Care: Since 2010, £3.5billion has been taken out of adult social care budgets. Age UK said this winter’s A&E crisis was caused by funding cuts for social care by local authorities. Research by the charity showed the numbers getting help had fallen from just over one million three years ago to 850,000 last year.

44) Foreign Office: The Foreign Office budget has fallen 30 per cent since 2009-10 – from £2.4bn to £1.7bn in 2013-14 prices. Since 2010, three embassies have suspended operations and 13 consulates or consular offices have been closed.

45) Housing: Local councils reduced expenditure on housing by 7.8 per cent in the last financial year alone.

46) Tax inspectors: HM Revenue and Customs will close 14 offices by December 2015, while 690 admin staff have been offered voluntary redundancy.

47) Teachers: Sixth form colleges this month warned students would see their direct tuition time from teachers cut from 18 hours to 15 a week.

48) NHS Direct: Axed by the coalition in 2010, it’s replacement - NHS 111 - was seen to add to this winter’s A&E crisis. Dr Clifford Mann, President of the College of Emergency Medicine, said in December 2014 that those who called 111 were too often referred by operators to A&E units or to an ambulance service.

49) JobCentre Plus: In 2013 the Department for Work and Pensions cut the Jobcentre Plus budget by 25 per cent, leading to 9,300 jobs being axed.

50) Harrier Jump Jets: All 74 planes were permanently grounded following a defence review in 2010, and then sold off to the Americans in 2011.