Forget about Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister torment of public workers, whose hit accepts everything smelled of State. Cuts in public expenditure submitted yesterday by his spiritual heir, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, are more than double in percentage terms than thirty years ago that helped make the Iron Lady of the symbol of neo-liberal right and the "shake the belt. " And despite the rhetoric of "compassionate conservatism" by the executive showed off the losers will be especially vulnerable groups: elderly, the unemployed and the disabled.
Waiting "review spending (Spending Review) by Osborne yesterday by the House of Commons, among the moans of the parliamentary Labour party, is in fact the heaviest blow from the end of the Second World War. The cuts, coated on the next 5 years, amount to a total of 83 billion. A plan of tears and blood, presented by the executive of the Liberal-Conservative coalition, which launched dwarfing the shafts in recent months in France and Germany. The goal: to clear by the end of 2014, the largest deficit at the continental level, and prevent the public debt hit 100% share of GDP, risking, however, that the country will be plunged into recession.
The main victim of the cutting plane is social assistance, which, surprisingly, will be removed 7 billion more than the 11 billion previously announced. The retirement age will be increased from 65 to 66 years by 2020, a savings of 5 billion pounds a year. A number of contributions made during the decade of Labour to help disabled, elderly, sick, single mothers, will be reduced or eliminated. The subsidies for the poorest families, including one for the home, will be cut drastically. A strategic choice to hit the weak, which contrasts clearly with the promise made repeatedly by the government led by David Cameron.
The frontal assault to expenditure on social assistance has enabled Registrar to report to the Commons boasting a reduction in planned cuts to the budget of several ministries, led to 19% compared with 25% of which was spoken in recent days. But this change in plans will not be enough to save 490,000 jobs, which, according to data presented by the same executive, will be eliminated in the public sector over the next five years.
If the national health service and schools will be relatively spared from the acceptance of Osborne, to suffer will be mostly employees of ministries, universities and local government employees that are expected to cut between 30% and 25%. Some 11,000 police officers could lose their jobs as a result of a reduction of 25% of the funds of the Ministry of Interior. Less affected than with military spending will be cut by 8%, however, the army of His Majesty lose hunting, tanks and 7,500 soldiers.
"Today is the day when Britain takes a step back from the precipice, the day we deal with the accounts of a decade of debt," said Osborne who argued that the cuts are "modest" and that the government will be done to "find a job to civil servants to be fired." "It's an irresponsible gamble with the lives of the citizens" replied the shadow chancellor Labour Party Alan Johnson. "That plan put at risk the weak economic recovery UK and will hit families instead of banks that caused the crisis. "
