THE TORIES have calmly and coldly set about the destruction of the welfare state. That is the only conclusion to be the from the mounting information about their plans for cuts in social expenditure.
The latest to get in on the act Health Secretary Jenkin.
plan •is simole straight forward; the National Health Service will no longer be subsidised to provide medical aid for all. says, NHS will go partnership with private health schemes.
Patients The exact details of the proposals have yet worked out, but involve patients being charged for the treatment they receive, and it almost mean faster, better for those who can afford it.
But the Tories are not just out to destroy the NHS.
living estimate the CULE between 5½ to 7½ per cent -drawn will mean the loss 13,700 residential places for the elderly and handicapped.
Patrick Home helps and are dependent on home-helps will have to get by as best they can. To make sure that they do Instead, Jenkin 'pamper' Into aged, the Tories will cut 'meals on wheels' by f4m. these introduced it means thousands of older people hospital — a difficult thing to do when the be run-down! Other services for could the elderly and the disabled will also be CIL sheltered housing.
will treatment by the lorv shires start statutory schooling at six and get rid of pupils at 15 if they The Whitehall bureaucrats have a job.
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which vary of up the physically regulations, postponement Some 72,000 people who after. Maybe won't get the poor and "savings' are an invite going into NHS is being 26 July.
Cheer back, including The Association of County which is dominated annual 'do' for 200 WAILS all. The Association also wants changes in the law to allow libraries charge book borrowers, and a relaxation of fire precaution including the of the stringent rules being proposed to cover homes for the elderly.
But the axe is not coming down on everyone. Maybe your grandparents won't get looked children your educated. Perhaps will burn dowr before an understaffed, underpaid fire service can reach it. War'.
However, you might receive GLC chair.
Robert Vigard County Hall for the evening of Just to introduce a bit of cheer in our drab lives, the Tories have brought back their guns al £100 a head, which of course is paid for by the rate payers. THE TARGET for Sir Keith Joseph is 100,000 assorted jobs in industry.
Hit hardest will be the areas in which unemployment is already highest. Merseyside, Glasgow.
According to 'leaks' published in the national press, Joseph aims to: • Cut — 20,000 jobs in shipbuilding. The yards most likely to be either drastically run down or closed entirely are those in Glasgow, Belfast, and Newcastle. • Cut - a further 80.000 jobs in shipbuilding support industries will be go by the board if the shipbuilding industry is pruned as Joseph is demanding.
slice approximately £200 million off job creation budgets.
Hardest hit will be the temporary employment subsidy which one estimate reckoned saved 200,000 young people from the dole queue. unemployment which will suffer. Total job loss will be 100,000 plus.
THE TORIES are aiming to eliminate between 150,000 and 200,000 jobs in education. This is a consequence of the cut in educational spending of £550 million, outlined in Geoffrey Howe's budget.
The National Association of Head Teachers has said the cuts are 'the most damaging attack on educational standards perpetrated by any government since the Second World The National Union of Teachers' view is that a cut of the magnitude now being proposed 'would destroy attempts to maintain a reasonable education service'.
All levels of education face the axe, but the most favoured targets could be nursery schools, schools, and polytechnics.
There will be one exception — state aid to public schools. The government is committed to spend f60 million on these training establishments for the ruling class.
The job losses break down this way: 70,000 teaching posts will disappear through teaching and non-teaching posts in higher education will go the same way; and 50,000 teachers will be sacked.
the North-east, and - regional aid to depressed regions. Joseph wants to Again it will be areas of highest IN secondary 'natural wastage'; 15,000 weaken their resolve in the face