Austerity overdrive: Osborne’s £18billion assault on welfare state

‘Cash-strapped councils have been forced to scrap social care for 150,000 vulnerable pensioners and cut child protection spending by 8 percent since 2010, new analysis shows.

As austerity remains firmly on the government’s agenda, local authority services have been discarded and state entitlements have shifted dramatically.

Detailed analysis of council spending conducted by the Financial Times indicates that government services are crumbling in the face of growing demand, with council budgets being slashed by £18 billion (US$28 billion) since 2010. Yet despite the pressure that local authorities face, a further £9.5 billion is expected to be cut from council spending by 2020.

Tory plans to plow ahead with further austerity have angered critics who warn of the rise of Victorian-levels of poverty in Britain. In a state increasingly characterized by zero-hours contracts, social cleansing, and drastic welfare reforms, they argue further austerity will impact heavily on Britain’s most vulnerable.’

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