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Who are the real culprits behind UK’s collapsing public services?

By David Posted on February 29, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with cameron, Cuts, Tories, UK

‘Anyone following David Cameron’s negotiations with the EU, or the subsequent ‘in-out’ referendum debate in Britain, would perhaps forgiven for believing that migration is the cause of all Britain’s woes. Cameron himself has been cultivating the link in voters’ minds between migration and public service decline since at least 2013, when he made clear his […]

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Osborne is categorically promising to make us worse off

By David Posted on February 29, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Cuts, UK

‘First, let’s be clear; what George Osborne is saying is that GDP us at risk of falling. And let’s be clear, what we also know is that we are already operating in an economic environment where we are using less than the UK’s economic capacity. In in other words, GDP could be bigger than it […]

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Has Osborne magicked up an economic downturn to justify more cuts?

By David Posted on February 28, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Cuts

‘Remember the Autumn Statement, in which George Osborne struck such a triumphant tone because the Office of Budgetary Irresponsibility had magicked up £27 billion of extra money for him in a prediction over the next five years. Only three months later, two-thirds of that cash has been magicked away by the same organisation and suddenly […]

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270,000 truckers told their pensions will be cut up to 60%

By David Posted on February 18, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Cuts, pensions, USA

‘Retired union workers facing large pension cuts gathered to voice their anger at those cuts Tuesday. Representative Emanuel Cleaver conducted the town hall meeting. According to Cleaver, more than 270,000 people from across several states, including Missouri, who have vested millions of dollars into their pension funds, have been told their benefits from the Central […]

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David Cameron’s aunt joined protest march against Tory cuts to children’s centres

By David Posted on February 16, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with activism, austerity, cameron, Cuts, protests

‘It turns out Mr Cameron’s aunt has more intelligence than anybody expected – including, it seems, her nephew. He was probably hoping she would pipe down after he magicked up a grant of more than £300 million for primarily-Tory, southern counties, to relieve the effect of his cuts there. Instead, Clare Currie appears to have […]

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Money talks as Cameron buys the silence of Tory MPs threatening council cuts rebellion

By David Posted on February 10, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with cameron, Cuts, money

‘Could there be any clearer demonstration of Conservative Government corruption? Money talks in David Cameron’s administration – and it says everybody has a price. We have already witnessed an example of this, after it was revealed that the Conservative Party has apparently smashed legal spending limits in criminal attempts to win three Parliamentary seats with […]

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Iain Duncan Smith Urged To Rethink Cuts To Employment And Support Allowance

By David Posted on January 23, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Cuts, UK, welfare

‘Iain Duncan Smith has been urged to rethink plans to cut Employment and Support Allowance, which campaigners say would “push disabled people further away from work and closer to poverty”. Thirty charities and members from the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) have signed an open letter to the Work and Pensions Secretary, warning that plans to […]

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Tories To Slash Employment Support Funding By 80%

By David Icke Posted on December 13, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Cuts, UK

‘The UK Government is to slash funding for contracted-out employment support by up to 80%, according to the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI). Meeting the Government’s goal of halving the employment gap between disabled and non-disabled workers – moving around one million more disabled people into work – could now become a much […]

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Cuts ‘To Hit Care Of Elderly In Poorest Areas’

By David Icke Posted on November 29, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Cuts, UK

‘Home care services for the elderly in deprived areas will have to be scrapped except for those in the most desperate need as a result of George Osborne’s funding cuts, the Tory-controlled Local Government Association says today. The warning comes as official figures show that wealthier, mostly Conservative-run parts of the country, where demand for […]

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Greek pensioners hold nationwide rallies to protest against cuts

By David Icke Posted on November 27, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with activism, Cuts, greece, protests

‘Thousands of Greek pensioners have held rallies across the country to protest against the government’s planned pension cuts demanded by international lenders under the cash-strapped country’s third bailout package. On Thursday, more than 2,000 pensioners marched through central Athens to protest pension cuts and changes to social security contained in Greece’s budget plan for 2016. […]

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Greek pensioners hold nationwide rallies to protest against cuts

By David Icke Posted on November 27, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with activism, Cuts, greece, protests

‘Thousands of Greek pensioners have held rallies across the country to protest against the government’s planned pension cuts demanded by international lenders under the cash-strapped country’s third bailout package. On Thursday, more than 2,000 pensioners marched through central Athens to protest pension cuts and changes to social security contained in Greece’s budget plan for 2016. […]

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Osborne ‘Targets’ Housing Benefit To Soften Tax Credit Cuts

By David Icke Posted on November 17, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Cuts, george osborne, UK

‘George Osborne is targeting housing benefit to pay for a partial climb down on tax credit changes, according to a government source. Mr Osborne has faced stiff resistance from both political opponents and Conservative rebels over plans to slash tax credits for millions of working families. The government also suffered a humiliating defeat in the […]

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Hypocrite Cameron is happy to cut police and council services – except in his own constituency

By David Icke Posted on November 14, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with cameron, Cuts, UK

‘Are we all, honestly, so apathetic that we’re willing to let David Cameron get away with this? It is now clear that he has wanted cruel cutbacks in both police protection and public services ever since he moved into Downing Street – as long as they don’t affect anybody who might possibly vote for him. […]

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Axman cometh: Osborne defies critics with fresh round of austerity

By David Icke Posted on November 10, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with austerity, Cuts, UK

‘Chancellor George Osborne announced fresh spending cuts for several government departments on Monday in the wake of his embarrassing defeat in the House of Lords on tax credit cuts. The environment, transport, local government and finance departments will have their day-to-day budgets, excluding capital expenditure, cut by an average 8 percent each year for the […]

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Police force could lose 22,000 jobs under new spending cuts

By David Icke Posted on September 1, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Cuts, police, UK

‘Planned government spending cuts will see at least 22,000 police jobs being lost, leaving the public protected by the lowest numbers of officers since the 1970s, according to a private estimate circulating among police chiefs. The figure, obtained by the Guardian, is much higher than previously known, and means the number of police officers in […]

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