Part I: NHS Staff Cutbacks Despite Tory Election Promises
Mon, 28/02/2011 - 21:45 | News Team

In yet another example of how Britain was conned by David Cameron’s promise not to cut back on the National Health Service, the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has just announced that at least 1,000 hospital jobs, including those of doctors and nurses, are to end.

The cutbacks are a direct response to the coalition government’s Spending Review, which did not cut funding to the NHS but lowered its annual increase to 0.1 percent above inflation.

This is well under annual operating cost increases, many of which (such as the ‘carbon tax’ on emissions and the increased petrol price) are the direct result of government-imposed surcharges.

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Spending Review Nightmare Part I: NHS Staff Cutbacks Despite Tory Election Promises | British National Party
Part II: Public Left Vulnerable as Police Cutbacks Bite
Mon, 28/02/2011 - 21:13 | News Team

Coalition government Policing Minister Nick Herbert’s promise that the police’s front-line services would be protected after severe budgets cuts has been exposed as a lie with the news that yet another specialist unit that traces and recovers stolen cars is to be axed.

The Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (VCIS) has been highly successful in tracking down a significant number of the 150,000 cars stolen in Britain every year, but has been told its annual £300,000 grant has been cancelled.

This money is, of course, a mere fraction of what is spent on foreign aid each year, a large portion of which goes to helping establish ‘law and order’ in other countries.

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Spending Review Nightmare Part II: Public Left Vulnerable as Police Cutbacks Bite | British National Party
Part III: Train Commuting Costs Set to Rise and Road Maintenance Budgets Cut
Mon, 28/02/2011 - 20:41 | News Team

Workers who commute by train on main routes with regulated fares face dramatic price increases because of the coalition government’s budget cuts, travel industry experts have warned.

The Tory/Lib Dem government has announced that it will be raising the ‘fee cap’ on routes with regulated fares to 3 percent above inflation in a bid to shift some of the cost of rail subsidies it provides onto the public — even though tax money is used to already subsidise the train companies.

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Spending Review Nightmare Part III: Train Commuting Costs Set to Rise and Road Maintenance Budgets Cut | British National Party