George Osborne Plans Biggest Public Spending Cuts For 30 Years [Is The RNC Listening?]

Telegraph(UK) ^ | October 06, 2009

[Steelfish]

George Osborne Plans Biggest Public Spending Cuts For 30 Years

A new era of austerity would be ushered in by a Conservative victory in the general election after George Osborne announced the biggest cuts in public spending for 30 years.

By Andrew Porter and Robert Winnett 06 Oct 2009

The shadow chancellor set out a detailed range of cuts, including a one-year pay freeze for five million public sector workers, which, he said, would save the taxpayer £23 billion over the next five years.

The scale of the Tory plans to tackle the record budget deficit built up by Labour took many by surprise because it risks alienating a large swath of voters, including doctors, nurses and police officers.

But in a calculated political gamble, Mr Osborne said that he was simply being “honest” about the economic difficulties facing the country. He pleaded with the public to accept that everyone had to face up to the challenges ahead.

“We’re all in this together,” he repeatedly told Conservative supporters at the party’s conference in Manchester.

In a frank assessment, Mr Osborne gave warning that Britain was “sinking in a sea of debt”. While public sector workers would bear the brunt of cuts, middle-class families would also be asked to share the burden, he said.

[GeronL]

Didn’t the IMF tell the UK that they had to start making people pay for healthcare to fix the debt problem?

Just 5 or 10 pounds a visit would help out a bunch and discourage people from going for trivial reasons.

[ez]

Labour spends out of control and the Tories are left to clean up the mess. Still, this statement seems like political suicide. Perhaps you may want to get elected BEFORE you break the bad news...