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The Conservative Party has let the cat out of the bag and revealed that they plan to make spending cuts of 10 per cent across the majority of government departments.
Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley this week revealed what David Cameron did not want the rest of the country to hear: the Conservatives would cut public spending in the majority of government departments by 10 per cent.
"We are going to increase the resources for the NHS, we are going to increase resources for international development aid. We are going to increase resources for schools. But that does mean over three years after 2011 a 10 per cent reduction in the departmental expenditure limits for other departments."
Andrew Lansley, BBC Today Programme, 10 June 2009 
There is a choice between Labour which believes we must grow our way out of recession – and the Conservatives who have revealed that they would cut the vast majority of public spending by ten per cent.

What these cuts would mean…

• Schools: The Tories are planning to take £5.1 billion out of education spending, the equivalent of losing 44,130 teachers, and 34,490 teaching assistants and school support staff.
  
• Police: The Tories are planning to take £930 million out of the Home Office. Cutting police funding by the same 10 per cent as the rest of the Home office could see the loss of 15,000 police officers – exactly the number of extra police officers delivered from Labour’s record investment since 1997. That’s nearly 30 off the beat in every constituency across England.
  
• University places: The Tories are planning 10 per cent across the board cuts for public spending. That could mean cutting the number of places available each year by 32,000.
  
  
• Defence: The Tories are planning to cut 10 per cent from the defence budget – the equivalent of cutting 10,000 soldiers, and a further 8,000 members of the armed forces from the Navy and Airforce. That’s double the number of troops the UK has in Afghanistan.

British People are losing their homes, David Cameron is Losing Track

By Helen Symons

People often scoff at politics. They say that politicians are just in it for themselves. That politics doesn’t matter. That there’s no point because no one listens any more.

But it’s not true. And I wanted to show you why. We’ve just made this video and I wanted you to be some of the first to see it.

Over the past 11 years the trade unions, working in tandem with Labour, have brought change to Britain. The minimum wage. Better maternity and paternity rights. And let’s not forget the extension of paid leave – meaning that all full time workers have 20 days holiday + 8 Bank Holidays. But David Cameron is threatening all of these rights and more.

He says that pulling out of the Social Chapter – the legal guarantee that protects hundreds of working rights – is his "top priority." Senior Tories openly state that Cameron plans on letting the National Minimum Wage "melt away."

If they get their way the Tories would condemn thousands of workers to a life on poverty pay.

But we believe in something better. Please watch the video and then share it with your friends.

These are tough economic times, but it’s fair rights at work which will help us get through them – and build a fair and just economy, and society, for when the good times return.

Watch our latest video and then sign our petition.

Thanks for all that you’re doing to help us support working rights – our rights are precious and with your help we’ll keep them.

Originally Posted On labourlist.org Reproduced With Permission