UK Spending Review: Welfare

George Osborne went for the juggular, when he hammered the poorest and most vulnerable UK citizens.

He hacked £18bn from the welfare budget, and along with 28% cut to local councils, a lot of the services provided free for the incapacitated and the old will be axed.

He claimed his budget review was fair, but economist say diferrent. The Instiute of Fiscal Studies, an independent organisation, included all the cuts in their calculations, and came to the conclusion that it was the poorest who have been hit the hardest, and with cuts in local services, they will suffer even more.

The Condems massaged the figures for the schools budget, saying they had increased it by 0.1%. When you take into account the fact that the schools population is set to grow at 0.7%, the actual figure is a reduction of 0.6%.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron met the public in a televised meeting, to promote their idea of fairness. Both were uncomfortable with the hostile reception they got, and the fact that the audience continually complained they were hitting the poor, the ill and the old, as well as children the hardest. David cameron was furious, and several times went so red in the face with annoyance that he was being question by the public, that he looked as though he could burst a blood vessel.

He repeated several times the old lie about having to do this, the alternative of doing nothing would store debt up and be worse off. It has never been a case of slash and burn, or do nothing. They used the cuts labour had planned and costed, and added some more.

Nick Clegg repeated several times that it was fair, and that the general public should not believe the Labour Government,  the Instiute of Fiscal Studies and other economist who had been supplied with the figures from the treasury. They used all the figures and not been selective.
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Vic Farron RFT Express.

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