The LGA, which represents 422 authorities, has warned MPs budget cuts may result in services being restricted to those with "critical" needs.
A £3bn funding shortfall could affect people with dementia, Parkinson's disease and diabetes, it said.
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow said it was "wrong to scare people".
But shadow health minister John Healey said: "This shows you cannot make big budget cuts without big consequences".
The LGA's warning to MPs came in a written submission.
A LGA spokesman told the BBC that "virtually all" councils would be affected.
Yes it is wrong to scare people, perhaps you would like to tell that to 94 year old Wilfred Hardy (See below) because it is your government's cuts that are scaring people to the point they are now wishing they were dead!
Read The Full Story: Councils' body says cuts threaten home care for elderly
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'I'd be better off dead,' says OAP
A war veteran of 94 has been told his “lifeline” carer is being taken away in a heartless decision that should leave Chancellor George Osborne ashamed of his brutal cuts.
Wilfred Hardy – who has a heart condition and can walk only short distances with a stick – was assessed by doctors and approved for a carer by his local council after he suffered a stroke in 2008.
He relies on his carer’s daily visits, for as well as looking after him she is his only real contact with the outside world.
But last week he was told that town hall bosses – struggling to balance the books after Osborne announced 28 per cent cuts for local councils – are axing his care.
Wilfred took part in daring air and sea rescue missions while posted to the hostile deserts of North Africa during World War Two.
He helped save the lives of dozens of his RAF comrades who were shot down in Sudan. And he faced death many times when their positions were bombed by the Italians.
But now he has been left devastated and fearful after being deprived of the vital service.
Wilfred, a grandfather of 10, said tearfully: “Having a carer was my lifeline – now they’ve taken it away what have I got? I feel the best thing to do now would be to kick the bucket.
“I spent the three years in the desert fighting for this country and I’ve worked hard all my life, and this is the thanks I get from David Cameron and George Osborne.”
Wilfred told how he was given council-funded care after becoming increasingly frail. He said: “I can’t walk very far and sometimes I have to stop people and ask them to help me if I can’t carry on – I’m always falling over.
“The hospital said I should have a carer and the council approved it. I had a young lady called Natalie coming in, sometimes twice a day, and she was fantastic – she would make a wonderful nurse.
Watch and Listen To Wilf Telling His Own Story!
"She would make me something to eat, put the rubbish out or just help with anything I need.
Wilfred’s former carer Natalie Temple, 24, who recently left her job with a private nursing agency, said: “The council’s decision is scandalous. Wilfred gets very short of breath so things like housework are exhausting. Trying to get the Hoover out nearly kills him.
“He can’t cook for himself very well – he drops things if he tries to get them from the oven. It’s a miracle he hasn’t been scalded.
“And he is he is very unsteady on his feet and has had a lot of falls. If he didn’t have someone coming in regularly I would worry that if he fell it would be days before he was found.”
Wilfred had been a 23-year-old technical officer with the RAF’s 223 Squadron stationed in Kenya when the war broke out in 1939.
He served across North and East Africa until 1942 – playing in the Air Force football team – and, after a year back in the Midlands, was sent back to the front until the war ended in 1945.
He said: “It was really tough – I had malaria and men were dying from dysentery.
“In one battle in Sudan the Italian army over-ran us. That was probably the closest I came to death.”
After the war Wilfred worked until retirement. He spent 24 years with the Post Office and for banks, British Aerospace and as a welder. He briefly moved to Cornwall after suffering a heart attack aged 58, but returned to London to find work with wife June. He split with June 20 years ago and rarely sees his children – he lives alone in Welwyn Garden City, Herts.
Tory-controlled Herts County Council had already announced cuts of £150m, including £23m to care for the elderly and disabled, before George Osborne’s crushing spending review. Council bosses have now been ordered to save another 28pc over four years.
A council spokesman said they stood by their decision to take away Wilfred’s carer according to “fair access to care” criteria. He said: “Mr Hardy is a remarkably resilient person who, despite his 94 years, is able to live in his own home.
“He has been given and will continue to get the support he needs. He lives in sheltered accommodation with a scheme manager on hand.”
Source - Read more: The Sunday Mirrror
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A £3bn funding shortfall could affect people with dementia, Parkinson's disease and diabetes, it said.
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow said it was "wrong to scare people".
But shadow health minister John Healey said: "This shows you cannot make big budget cuts without big consequences".
The LGA's warning to MPs came in a written submission.
A LGA spokesman told the BBC that "virtually all" councils would be affected.
Yes it is wrong to scare people, perhaps you would like to tell that to 94 year old Wilfred Hardy (See below) because it is your government's cuts that are scaring people to the point they are now wishing they were dead!
Read The Full Story: Councils' body says cuts threaten home care for elderly
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'I'd be better off dead,' says OAP
Wilfred Hardy – who has a heart condition and can walk only short distances with a stick – was assessed by doctors and approved for a carer by his local council after he suffered a stroke in 2008.
He relies on his carer’s daily visits, for as well as looking after him she is his only real contact with the outside world.
But last week he was told that town hall bosses – struggling to balance the books after Osborne announced 28 per cent cuts for local councils – are axing his care.
Wilfred took part in daring air and sea rescue missions while posted to the hostile deserts of North Africa during World War Two.
He helped save the lives of dozens of his RAF comrades who were shot down in Sudan. And he faced death many times when their positions were bombed by the Italians.
But now he has been left devastated and fearful after being deprived of the vital service.
Wilfred, a grandfather of 10, said tearfully: “Having a carer was my lifeline – now they’ve taken it away what have I got? I feel the best thing to do now would be to kick the bucket.
“I spent the three years in the desert fighting for this country and I’ve worked hard all my life, and this is the thanks I get from David Cameron and George Osborne.”
Wilfred told how he was given council-funded care after becoming increasingly frail. He said: “I can’t walk very far and sometimes I have to stop people and ask them to help me if I can’t carry on – I’m always falling over.
“The hospital said I should have a carer and the council approved it. I had a young lady called Natalie coming in, sometimes twice a day, and she was fantastic – she would make a wonderful nurse.
Watch and Listen To Wilf Telling His Own Story!
Wilfred’s former carer Natalie Temple, 24, who recently left her job with a private nursing agency, said: “The council’s decision is scandalous. Wilfred gets very short of breath so things like housework are exhausting. Trying to get the Hoover out nearly kills him.
“He can’t cook for himself very well – he drops things if he tries to get them from the oven. It’s a miracle he hasn’t been scalded.
“And he is he is very unsteady on his feet and has had a lot of falls. If he didn’t have someone coming in regularly I would worry that if he fell it would be days before he was found.”
Wilfred had been a 23-year-old technical officer with the RAF’s 223 Squadron stationed in Kenya when the war broke out in 1939.
He served across North and East Africa until 1942 – playing in the Air Force football team – and, after a year back in the Midlands, was sent back to the front until the war ended in 1945.
He said: “It was really tough – I had malaria and men were dying from dysentery.
“In one battle in Sudan the Italian army over-ran us. That was probably the closest I came to death.”
After the war Wilfred worked until retirement. He spent 24 years with the Post Office and for banks, British Aerospace and as a welder. He briefly moved to Cornwall after suffering a heart attack aged 58, but returned to London to find work with wife June. He split with June 20 years ago and rarely sees his children – he lives alone in Welwyn Garden City, Herts.
Tory-controlled Herts County Council had already announced cuts of £150m, including £23m to care for the elderly and disabled, before George Osborne’s crushing spending review. Council bosses have now been ordered to save another 28pc over four years.
A council spokesman said they stood by their decision to take away Wilfred’s carer according to “fair access to care” criteria. He said: “Mr Hardy is a remarkably resilient person who, despite his 94 years, is able to live in his own home.
“He has been given and will continue to get the support he needs. He lives in sheltered accommodation with a scheme manager on hand.”
Source - Read more: The Sunday Mirrror
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Chancellor to face questions over child benefit reform plans
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| George Osborne's welfare review 'a laundry list of cuts that penalise the vulnerable and the working poor' |
Treasury committee to hear from George Osborne and Danny Alexander as adviser says changes are 'administrative burden'
The questioning, by a Commons committee, will come after warnings that the government will struggle to fully implement the government's flagship policy to withhold £1,700 in child benefit annually from higher rate taxpayers.
Attention has turned to how the government will enforce the policy after a report on Thursday suggested Treasury officials believe the rule change to be "unenforceable" because it relied on one earner being forced to declare each other's earnings.
Andrew Tyrie, the committee's chair and Conservative MP for Chichester, said: "No doubt we will want to examine the workability of the proposals on child benefit – a number of experts have challenged the scheme on a number of plausible grounds. We now need to look at those carefully and check that the Treasury examined the issues closely in designing the scheme."
All 4 million higher rate taxpayers are to receive a letter from the exchequer asking whether their partner receives child benefit. Higher rate taxpayers who use the self-assessment system will be required to tick a box declaring the benefit and will then be taxed at a higher rate to recoup the cost.
Those who are taxed through the pay-as-you-earn system will be asked to declare the benefit, putting them in a different tax code. The benefit will then be recouped in the following tax year.
But those ranged in opposition to the change threw up a myriad situations in which couples would end up being fined should one spouse not know the full financial affairs of the other or should the couple temporarily separate.
Tax expert John Whiting, who was appointed director of the Office of Tax Simplification by the chancellor, warned that clawing back the cost of the benefit from higher rate taxpayers through the tax system would be "intrusive" and involve lots of form-filling.
It would also be "an administrative burden" that would "make a dent" in the estimated £2.5bn in savings the Treasury claims the change will bring, Whiting added.
A Tory MP and expert on taxation Ian Liddell Grainger – chair of the all party parliamentary group on taxation – said yesterday morning the move would be "virtually unenforceable" until HMRC was able to process real-time information.
Though he was not criticising the intent behind the policy he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "One of the big difficulties the government has got is that the system they have got is not a real-time system and therefore this is going to be virtually unenforceable."
"If your circumstances change they will not be able to enact it in real time. The ramifications for getting it wrong are enormous for the taxpayers and the citizens of the UK.
"Why is the citizen going to volunteer the information? Because it's not going to be worth their while, there's no guarantee it can be enacted and people want their privacy respected."
Liddell-Grainger highlighted recent problems with the PAYE system, with millions of taxpayers wrongly taxed, saying: "If we can't get PAYE right, we are not going to be able to do this."
Since 90% of child benefit is paid to mothers, who are under no legal obligation to tell the father they receive it, newly-divorced mothers face having to ask any new partner to declare their tax status.
Shadow chancellor Alan Johnson wrote to the chancellor asking for the "significant confusion" around who would be hit to be cleared up. He asked whether a single mother has to spend a certain number of nights with a new partner before his tax status meant she lost her right to child benefit; would the answer vary if the nights were spent in her property or his?
He said: "We already knew that your plans were unfair. But what has been increasingly clear is that the plans simply haven't been thought through. The result is the significant confusion we are now seeing about what this policy means in practice."
Further possible consequences included a mother of two whose older child becomes a higher-rate taxpayer while living at home having to forgo the benefit as well as the possibility of a single mother who moves back in with her parents – one of whom earns above the threshold or with a sister whose husband pays higher rate tax.
A Treasury spokesman said: "Withdrawing child benefit from higher rate taxpayers will be done through existing systems and processes. The tax system already asks higher rate taxpayers for information about things like interest received on savings accounts, in order to ensure the right amount of tax is paid. This is just an additional piece of information HMRC will ask for and it will be the higher rate taxpayer's responsibility to report it to HMRC."
Attention has turned to how the government will enforce the policy after a report on Thursday suggested Treasury officials believe the rule change to be "unenforceable" because it relied on one earner being forced to declare each other's earnings.
Andrew Tyrie, the committee's chair and Conservative MP for Chichester, said: "No doubt we will want to examine the workability of the proposals on child benefit – a number of experts have challenged the scheme on a number of plausible grounds. We now need to look at those carefully and check that the Treasury examined the issues closely in designing the scheme."
On Wednesday, Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, will appear before the Treasury committee, followed by chancellor George Osborne on Thursday.
Yesterday, in Brussels, David Cameron said he did not "predict a problem" in implementing the changes.
The Treasury insist the change has been stress-tested, confirming this morning that those higher earners who did not give up their child benefit would face a civil fine, to be stipulated by forthcoming parliamentary legislation.All 4 million higher rate taxpayers are to receive a letter from the exchequer asking whether their partner receives child benefit. Higher rate taxpayers who use the self-assessment system will be required to tick a box declaring the benefit and will then be taxed at a higher rate to recoup the cost.
Those who are taxed through the pay-as-you-earn system will be asked to declare the benefit, putting them in a different tax code. The benefit will then be recouped in the following tax year.
But those ranged in opposition to the change threw up a myriad situations in which couples would end up being fined should one spouse not know the full financial affairs of the other or should the couple temporarily separate.
Tax expert John Whiting, who was appointed director of the Office of Tax Simplification by the chancellor, warned that clawing back the cost of the benefit from higher rate taxpayers through the tax system would be "intrusive" and involve lots of form-filling.
It would also be "an administrative burden" that would "make a dent" in the estimated £2.5bn in savings the Treasury claims the change will bring, Whiting added.
A Tory MP and expert on taxation Ian Liddell Grainger – chair of the all party parliamentary group on taxation – said yesterday morning the move would be "virtually unenforceable" until HMRC was able to process real-time information.
Though he was not criticising the intent behind the policy he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "One of the big difficulties the government has got is that the system they have got is not a real-time system and therefore this is going to be virtually unenforceable."
"If your circumstances change they will not be able to enact it in real time. The ramifications for getting it wrong are enormous for the taxpayers and the citizens of the UK.
"Why is the citizen going to volunteer the information? Because it's not going to be worth their while, there's no guarantee it can be enacted and people want their privacy respected."
Liddell-Grainger highlighted recent problems with the PAYE system, with millions of taxpayers wrongly taxed, saying: "If we can't get PAYE right, we are not going to be able to do this."
Since 90% of child benefit is paid to mothers, who are under no legal obligation to tell the father they receive it, newly-divorced mothers face having to ask any new partner to declare their tax status.
Shadow chancellor Alan Johnson wrote to the chancellor asking for the "significant confusion" around who would be hit to be cleared up. He asked whether a single mother has to spend a certain number of nights with a new partner before his tax status meant she lost her right to child benefit; would the answer vary if the nights were spent in her property or his?
He said: "We already knew that your plans were unfair. But what has been increasingly clear is that the plans simply haven't been thought through. The result is the significant confusion we are now seeing about what this policy means in practice."
Further possible consequences included a mother of two whose older child becomes a higher-rate taxpayer while living at home having to forgo the benefit as well as the possibility of a single mother who moves back in with her parents – one of whom earns above the threshold or with a sister whose husband pays higher rate tax.
A Treasury spokesman said: "Withdrawing child benefit from higher rate taxpayers will be done through existing systems and processes. The tax system already asks higher rate taxpayers for information about things like interest received on savings accounts, in order to ensure the right amount of tax is paid. This is just an additional piece of information HMRC will ask for and it will be the higher rate taxpayer's responsibility to report it to HMRC."
Source: The Guardian
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Cuts To Military Are Security Risk
Britain's security is going to be put at risk because of this insane government's cuts. We have mediocre clueless ministers and apparatchik military chiefs rushing headlong into cutting, it is as if they are trying to outdo eachother on toughness, the whole situation is reaching dizzy heights of "ludicrousocrity". Cutting like this is only going to expose us to terrorist attacks, cutting the police will do the same and for what? You cannot run the country's finances as you would a household budget, cutting expenditure in our own budgets may bring about the desired results, however, cutting spending like this in the country's finances at a time like this, is a recipe for total disaster.
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| Josef Stiglitz Leading Economist Condemns Osborne's Austerity Measures |
Do not take my word for it read what the world's leading economist has to say about it Josef Stiglitz
A decision by the economical fool of a court jester George Osborne to cut the defence budget by up to a fifth may mean our forces capacity to do their jobs even on current levels is seriously compromised.
Vast numbers of troops, tanks, fast jets, and even two new aircraft carriers face the axe as a result of Osborne's measures. This will lay our country wide open to attack from terrorists, if before we had a heightened security risk, once these cuts bite, that risk is going to be hugely increased many fold.
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| Tory Jetser The Economically Illiterate George Osborne |
All this from the Conservative party that criticised the last government for not doing enough? Don't forget to add into this that shortly after winning the election, David Cameron visited the troops on operations in Afghanistan and told a carefully selected troop that he was going to increase their "Operational Allowance" to much cheering, however, what Cameron FAILED to tell them at the time that he was going to freeze their pay for two years, freeze their family allowances and CUT their child tax credits, so any of them with families would be infinitely worse off.
"Planned cuts in military spending are so deep they could jeopardise troop operations, MPs warn today, adding that the strategic defence review is being conducted so quickly that serious mistakes will be made".
Further Reading:
Leading Economist and Nobel Prize Winner: Josef Stiglitz
The Guardian: Defence Cuts Puts Country At Risk
Saturday 11th September 2010
Nick Clegg faces revolt over ‘brutal’ Bill to cut civil service pay-offs
Nick Clegg suffered his biggest backbench revolt yet when eight Liberal Democrat MPs refused to back rushing through a Bill to cut redundancy pay for civil servants.
Rebels Martin Horwood, Alan Reid, Roger Williams, Bob Russell, Mike Hancock, Annette Brooke and David Ward voted with Labour against the timetable for the Superannuation Bill while senior backbencher John Thurso also told the Commons he would not support the legislation.
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| Nick Clegg The Prime Minister's Dumb Waiter |
More Lib-Dems voiced concerns over the proposed cuts in redundancy pay-outs, including John Pugh — who warned against “managerial brutalism” but stopped short of joining the revolt.
The Liberal democrats should "get real"! They are supposed to be curbing the excesses of their Tory masters, in fact they have yet to disagree and stop one of their insane cuts, along with the Tories, the Liberal Democrats are pulling this country and its people to utter ruin. We have a government of naive moronic idiots, whose only claim is they went to decent schools because their parents could afford it. Obviously going to expensive schools doesn't make people clever as these three morons are showing.
They are not fit to run this country, they are naive at best and at worse they are totally and utterly imbecilic.
When the coalition government is brought down, the Liberal Democrats will be taking the punishment for it, they have completely sold out the people of this country, this is not new politics, it is old one thousand times worse that Thatcher politics and people are not going to forget what these moronic idiots are doing to this country.
They are seeking to rush through parliament a bill that actually reneges on the contracts signed by civil service workers, it is completely unfair. The government have gone blundering in wanting to sack over a million people and they do not even want to allow them to go away with what they are entitled to. If they want the goodwill of the unions and the people this is a really funny way of going about it.
Source: This Is London
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Thursday 9th September 2010
Welfare spending to be cut by £4bn, says George Osborne
The government is planning to reduce the annual welfare bill by a further £4bn, Chancellor George Osborne has told the BBC.
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| Gideon [George] Osborne Doesn't he Make Your Guts Churn? |
Osborne went on about lifestyle choices and he said that people who make this choice as opposed to someone going out and "desperately looking for work" how will he know? AND WHERE ARE THE JOBS? Who is going to employ someone who has been out of work for years, with little or no skills? No one, there are NO jobs this bloody government have seen to this. Osborne is pushing and EXTRA over 1.3 MILLION people out of their jobs in the public sector, there are no jobs, where are all these people going to find work? This is going to hit the poorest in society the worse, there are going to be people losing their homes their jobs and whole families are going to be put out on the street, who is going to protect the children? Osborne is sacking social workers, he is sacking 45.000 police, who the hell is going to help the children of the unemployed? Who is going to feed, clothe them and keep them warm?
When did Osborne, Cameron and Clegg and Cable have to worry about money? They are all multi-millionaires, they have no idea what it is like to be us! I have worked hard all my damned life, my children have NEVER been unemployed, yet this little bastard millionaire is telling me that I will not be able to keep warm, or be able to feed and clothe myself and if my children lose their homes which they are buying and their jobs and businesses, there will be nothing there to help them, despite them paying all their taxes and nartional insurance?
When did Osborne, Cameron and Clegg and Cable have to worry about money? They are all multi-millionaires, they have no idea what it is like to be us! I have worked hard all my damned life, my children have NEVER been unemployed, yet this little bastard millionaire is telling me that I will not be able to keep warm, or be able to feed and clothe myself and if my children lose their homes which they are buying and their jobs and businesses, there will be nothing there to help them, despite them paying all their taxes and nartional insurance?
This government is ruining our country, they are frightening and the more people stay silent, the more they are going to take from us, it is time to speak up!
We are not a country that goes in for action, but this time it is necessary!
The BBC understands discussions are continuing in Whitehall about whether it is possible to limit pensioner benefits - such as the winter fuel allowance, bus pass and free TV licence - without breaking Prime Minister David Cameron's election promise that he would preserve them.
This government have cut the Future Jobs programme, which has found over 10.000 real jobs for young people.
This government have cut public spending which employed people.
This government have axed the School buildings programme and the social housing programme, which has hammered the construction industry and last month the construction industry is what helped to give us stronger than expected growth.
This government have axed the Regional Development Agencies, which helped promote and enable economic growth in England's regions by creating the conditions to grow businesses and by helping to create additional, better quality, higher-paid jobs.
This government reneged on a loan to Sheffield Forgemasters, which was promised this 2 years ago and NOT just 10 days before the election was called like Nick Clegg keeps lying about.
Hospitals and police are shedding staff, 45.000 police officers are to be sacked.
Perhaps the economically illiterate little rich kid could tell us just where these jobs are that he wants people to go and look for?
Far from reducing the welfare bill, this evil vicious government will end up INCREASING it, with 4 million LESS tax receipts coming into the treasury.
God Help Us and Protect Us From This Certifiably Insane Tory-Liberal Democrat government. We need to challenge the legality of this government in court!
Source:
Friday 10th September 2010
Royal Mail To Be Privatised or Sold
In A Production Brought To You by Vince Cable Someone Once Considered to Have a Soul
And a Brain
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| Another Disastrous Government Decision |
The government is to go ahead with the privatisation or sale of Royal Mail
Business Secretary Vince Cable made the commitment after receiving updated recommendations from the businessman Richard Hooper.
His latest report says the universal postal service can only be maintained by an injection of private sector money and expertise.
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William Hague: Axing Small Embassies 'False Economy'
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The CWU trade union said the plan would devastate the postal service and lead to higher postal charges.
Yet another barking mad short sighted decision, just selling off for the sake of it, it is no longer the family silver the government is selling off, it is anything it can get its greedy coalition Tory hands on from great chunks of the British countryside right through to our Royal Mail.
If Vince Cable was a Mr Man, his name would be "Mr YesSiree"!
He has lost everything he had about him which the electorate took to and liked, Cable and his string pullers Nick Clegg, David Cameron and George Osborne are going to be guilty of breaking up Royal Mail and selling the most profitable parts to their rich business leader and Tory voting, Tory Financial backing "friends".
Yes Mr Cable I agree with you, it is "gut wrenching and nauseating".
How can Cable say Royal Mail needs "private sector expertise"? There is absolutely nothing like Royal Mail in the private sector and there never has been, so how can the private sector have the expertise that Cable says Royal Mail needs?
Royal Mail is a service, does everything in this government do have to be run for profit? They are taking us back to the FAILED 80s and this is all going to fail and it is going to end in the tears of millions of ruined people and families in this country. We are heading for absolute ruin, this certifiably insane government have been told, but still they ignore the warnings. The Tories aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrats are taking an "unwinnable" gamble with all our jobs, businesses homes, schools, NHS and more, all our children's futures.
Royal Mail deliver to the remotest of places, which business is going to carry this on? Deliveries to these places and probably to villages etc will cease as they will be judged as not economically viable. In fact the whole letter delivery system will be judged as not economically viable and deliveries through our letter boxes will either be reduced to just a couple of times per week, or we will have designated offices we will have to go to, in order to pick up our mail.
Get ready for the start of this is our "Tory Liberal Democrat winter of discontent", postal unions will not go down without a fight and who can blame them?
Source: BBC Online - Royal Mail
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William Hague: Axing Small Embassies 'False Economy'
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| Mr Hague said it would be a "major error" to make big reductions to the UK's overseas network |
Closing dozens of small embassies to save money would be a "false economy", William Hague has told MPs.
The foreign secretary said the UK got "value for money" out of the Foreign Office (FCO) whose spending was less than that of Kent County Council.
The FCO accounted for just 0.3% of total spending and closing the cheapest 40 missions would save £2.5m.
For Full Story: Read BBC News Online/Hague Preempts Spending Cuts
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Sandwell Conservative defects over schools cuts
Conservative councillor Elaine Costigan has defected to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme.
Elaine Costigan, is the Deputy leader of Sandwell Council, said the community had been treated with "utter contempt" and she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".
Nine schools in Sandwell were told they would receive refurbishment money, only to be informed a day later the projects were being scrapped.
Source:
Read The Full Story and watch the video: BBC News and Politics / Ms Elaine Costigan
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How Many Cuts Will You Swallow? 28th August 2010 _
Who's Lying Now Mr Cameron?
Tory and Lib Dem ministers warn that they may have to tear up some untargeted welfare promises such as the £4 billion spent on subsiding travel for the elderly, free eye tests, free TV licences and winter fuel payments, even though when in opposition David Cameron said he would not do this, when during the televised leadership debates, he called Gordon Brown a liar and a scaremongerer for suggesting this. These pledges were also enshrined in the Coalition agreement.
Defend you public services don't wait until its too late. Once your GP surgery, your hospital, your NHS Direct, your School, your benefits, your disability living allowance, your free bus passes, your free TV licenses, your free eye tests, your council house etc one they are all gone, they are gone, and most things will never come back, even with the best will in the world, any new labour government will not be able to reintroduce many benefits and services that the Tories and Liberal Democrats are now destroying by taking an axe to them. It will be virtually impossible to restore many things that safeguard us and our families, our children or elderly parents/relatives in times of illness, sickness, inability to work, it will be too costly. Even if you do not claim benefit and are just living in your home going about your normal daily lives these cuts stand to effect you.Will David Cameron Now apologise to Gordon brown for calling him a liar, while all the time it was David Cameron telling barefaced lies?
There may be something you can do to help, no matter how small it all adds up, help labour and your unions today, join the Coalition of Resistance Against Cuts, it's free and easy.
Other people are banding together to fight these cuts for the good of everyone in this country, they cannot do without your help. http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/
Unfortunately we are living in very dangerous times, but the real attack on our liberty and our very way of life does not come from terrorists, it comes from our government, who is turning out to be one of the most inefficient, bungling neo fascist right wing governments this country has ever seen!
Sources:
Coalition of Resistance: Coalition of Resistance Against The Cuts
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Coalition's New Cuts Hit the North ~ 30 June 2010
The coalition has launched another attack on the north by scrapping the agencies that boost regional jobs.
The Government said the work of the Regional Development Agencies, set up by Labour, would now Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) create sustainable economic growth across England, enabling local communities to fulfil their economic ambitions. Every £1 spent by RDAs achieves a return of at least £4.50 for regional economies. This increases to £6.40 when long term economic benefits are considered.
20 Jul 2010 ~ England's RDAs help 43,000 jobs to be created of safeguarded by inward investors
Sources:
The RDA: Regional development Agency
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They Think This Is Funny
The Cuts So Far and Where The Axe Will Fall
The Elderly
Reviews Announced of
Winter Fuel Allowance ~ Free Bus Passes ~ Free Eye Tests ~ Free TV Licenses
Forcing Elderly To Move Into Smaller Accommodation ~ Raising the age of retirement one year for men and 6 years for women
The Young
Sure Start-ask parents to pay top up fees ~ Child Tax Funds Axed ~ Family Allowance Frozen ~ Child Family Tax Credits Frozen and some households to be axed ~ School Buildings For The Future Axed
Free school meals for most vulnerable children ~ Literacy programmes for pupils with learning difficulties axed ~
Women
The Tory budget will hit women the hardest
Construction Industry
General
VAT The most regressive tax to Rise to 20% ~ VAT hits the poorest people the hardest ~ VAT will increase fuel ~ VAT Will force hauliers to increase their prices, this in turn will increase the prices we pay for goods in our shops ~ VAT will force up the prices we pay for goods
The Elderly
Reviews Announced of
Winter Fuel Allowance ~ Free Bus Passes ~ Free Eye Tests ~ Free TV Licenses
Forcing Elderly To Move Into Smaller Accommodation ~ Raising the age of retirement one year for men and 6 years for women
The Young
Sure Start-ask parents to pay top up fees ~ Child Tax Funds Axed ~ Family Allowance Frozen ~ Child Family Tax Credits Frozen and some households to be axed ~ School Buildings For The Future Axed
Free school meals for most vulnerable children ~ Literacy programmes for pupils with learning difficulties axed ~
Women
The Tory budget will hit women the hardest
Construction Industry
General
VAT The most regressive tax to Rise to 20% ~ VAT hits the poorest people the hardest ~ VAT will increase fuel ~ VAT Will force hauliers to increase their prices, this in turn will increase the prices we pay for goods in our shops ~ VAT will force up the prices we pay for goods
The Tory government aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrats, are trying to scare us into believe that these cuts are all necessary, that the country is bankrupt and we have to do all of this.
Do Not Believe Them - The Country is NOT Bankrupt - Expert Economists Agree These Cuts Are Way Too Far and Way Too Deep - The Government Is Using Fear to Scare You and Bully You and Intimidate You Into Accepting Them
This government have been repeatedly warned that if they continue in this fashion, they will cause a huge danger of the UK economy going into a "Double Dip Recession".
David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, are breathtakingly arrogant at worse and naively arrogant at best. None of these men who are now supposedly running this country have ever had real jobs before, they are all born into money and to landed gentry and all went to the best schools eg Eton and Westminster. None of them know what it is like to worry about where the next couple of pounds is coming from to heat their homes and put food into the stomachs of their families. David Cameron and Nick Clegg's previous jobs were as *SPIN DOCTORS*, this means they are experienced in selling people things they do not want and do not need.
When they tell you that "we're all in this together" tell them 'no we are not'! They are not in this with us, they have no idea what it is like to live our lives, and more, they do not care. The Tory party hates the state, it is no secret that the Tory party always try and get rid of the state, that is our NHS, Schools, hospital and education, and they hate public sector workers, you can tell this by the way they have demonised public sector workers for having a job and then when they have made them unemployed they demonise them all over again because they do not have a job! The Tories can barely conceal their glee at being able to force decent hard working people out of their public sector jobs and onto the dole, where they will bully them into low paid menial jobs for a pittance of their usual salaries and if they refuse, then they will dock all or part of their benefits! Benefits they have probably paid into all their working lives without claiming. (If the Tories try this, there *WILL* be legal challenges).
When the Tories tell you, you must get a job, ask them where all these jobs are that people must get?
The Tories and the Liberal Democrats want to force you and your family out pf your home to another area if you cannot find work in your own area. Quite apart from the terrible psychological harm this could do to people, the government has not thought this through, this is just another knee jerk reaction from kids in government playing politics with real peoples lives;
- Fact File:
- How will someone be able to just up and move their families?
- Who will pay for new flooring and curtains if the old ones do not fit?
- Who will pay for expensive removal charges?
- How will a family struggling to survive afford to move?
- Who will pay for plumbers to disconnect and reconnect gas appliances?
- What about childcare? Many families depend on grandparents to provide this for working parents.
- What about schooling for the children?
- How will they be able to afford new school uniforms for the children?
- What about older children in the middle of studying for GCSEs and A levels? They cannot just up sticks to go to a new school who will be in a different part of the curriculum.
- What if the family has older children out at work, who will never be able to afford a place of their own, are they expected to just leave their jobs and move with the family, if not where will they live?
- What if they cannot find work where the family is moving? They will have to claim benefit, so virtually nothing will be gained by forcing people out of their homes to find work.
The Tories and Lib Dem plans are called are to force you to take either low paid part time work, or force you to work in the voluntary sector, Cameron calls this his "Big Society"!
Basically what this could mean is that on you lose your job on the Friday, attend a job seekers interview on the Monday and then could be sent back to the very same job you have just lost and be forced to do it for NOTHING and if you refuse your JSA (job seekers allowance) that you have probably paid into all your working life, will be withdrawn or reduced.
Ask yourselves would Cameron and Clegg and Osborne have done this?
Poor families will bear brunt of coalition's austerity drive, George Osborne's budget has been described as 'clearly regressive' by the IFS (Institute Fiscal Studies) a respected fiscal thinktank. Osborne has said that the Treasury does not accept the IFS findings, but when in opposition David Cameron and George Osborne used the IFS as their bible and quoted from it all of the time, now the boot is on the other foot, they do not want to accept its studies. It is gross hypocrisy!
"In a direct challenge to Treasury claims that the package of spending cuts and tax increases announced in June was fair, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said in a report that welfare cuts meant working families on the lowest incomes – particularly those with children – were the biggest losers.No one is saying that the deficit should not be paid off, in fact if we still had a labour government and following their plans, over half of the the structural deficit would have been paid of within the life of the next parliament, yes some cuts would have been made, but not these unnecessary savage cuts that are going to ruin our industry and throw at least 1.3 million extra people out of work and force us into a double dip recession. Cutting now will harm the fragile recovery that labour handed over to the Tories, a recovery that was recovering faster and stronger, showing that labour had it right, now all we face is total ruin, ruin to our NHS, ruin our to education system and ruin to our police service.
The IFS said it had always been sceptical about Osborne's claim that the budget was "progressive" but added that this instant judgment had been reinforced by a study of proposed changes to housing benefit, disability allowances and tax credits due to come in between now and 2015"
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| Gideon [George] Osborne Wants You To pay! |
The Tories and Lib Dems (Orange Tories) are full of ideology and they are force-feeding their right wing agenda down the throats of the people, they are not only playing politics with our lives, they are going to affect the future of every single child in this country.
The poor, the sick, the young, the elderly, the disabled, the unemployed, the ordinary, nurses, cleaners, road sweepers, dustmen etc are all going to be forced to pay for what the greedy bankers did to this country, it was NOT the labour government, it was bankers and selling toxic loans and in the sub prime mortgage markets that cause this, in a global recession and who benefited out of this recession to the tune of millions of pounds in donations from Hedge Fund Bankers? Yes The Conservative party!
Many donors to the Tories were actually betting on banks failing and making billions of pounds out of us losing our businesses, jobs, homes and pensions and they donate some of this money to the Tories, who then turn round and try to force us all into another recession and want to take everything away from us, making us pay instead of their Tory banker buddies.
Don't let them do it! Together we can stop them.
Sources:
Hard Facts Osborne/Tories Hit Poorest Hardest: Data Spreadsheet
The Guardian: Poor families To Pay More
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