And the cuts keep rolling in
July 6th, 2010Last week it was £6.5bn cuts announced by Danny Alexander (the former PR chief for the Cairngorms), yesterday another tranche of £1.5bn cuts from him, pepped up by Michael Gove’s scrapping 715 new school-building schemes (including 8 in my own constituency) in order to make way for his so-called ‘free schools’ and academies. This is just one tiny part of the additional Tory public spending cuts of £32bn a year by 2014-5 which will be brought about by slashing Government departmental budgets by a zany 25%. (more…)
