I saw a poster today for Unison. It said "Stop having children" as the public sector cuts are so dramatic that there will be a shortage of midwives. It also said to "vote for the party for public services". Well I dont know what that party is, but it certainly isn't Labour.
Despite labour and the Tories claims. Tories are not actually cutting any more than labour. Osbourne is cutting £8 for every £7 that Alistair "eyebrows" Darling proposed before the election. The coalition is only cutting public services by 0.6% this year, and 3.6% in four years. And also, it is predicted by the OBR that there will be more than enough increase in private sector jobs to make up for these lost jobs (source: http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6899298/camerons-new-cuts-narrative.thtml)
So to conclude, the coalition is not cutting public services by anything like what has been publicised by labour/the unions. And the conclusion that the cuts are more for "ideological" reasons rather than for financial ones is just plain bullshit. The cuts are only very slighty more than what labour proposed a year ago. If anybody is doing anything for purely "ideological" reasons it's the greedy public service unions, indirectly using taxpayer money to spread their bullshit propaganda, which has no factual basis whatsoever.
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