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.
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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.
