Cabinet gives go-ahead for £4,500m cuts

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Even before the latest round of Tory cuts the prospect facing the old, the sick and the poor is frightening. Details of what the cuts will mean in practice in just one borough have been revealed in the report prepared by the District Management Committee of the London borough of Hounslow. The Committee says that the health cuts will mean:

Closure of Hounslow Hospital : Closure of 25 percent of all family Closure of Hounslow chest clinic planning clinics • Closure of Perrivale maternity hospital Closure of Teddington dental laboratory Closure of the surgical unit at West Middlesex Hospital Closure of the child unit at West Middlesex Hospital • Closure of the physiotherapy day hospital and the rheumatology unit at West Middlesex hospital • And many more cuts in services and sackings.

SUDDENLY, after all these years, the ruling class and its media have discovered that the Rev Dr lan Paisley is not a very nice person.

His outbursts at the European Parliament and now his vow to keep the Pope out of the North of Ireland neve brought an avalanche moralising lectures from all manner of hypocrites and buffoons.

But when Paisley describes himself as 'the leader of the Northern Iréland people' he is not fantasising. The 170,000 votes that he received in the European elections do prove he is the undisputed leader of the Loyalist minority in 32-county Ireland.

Ten BY CATS ago, when troops were once again sent onto the streets of the North of Ireland, Paisley was no more than a fringe figure in Northern Irish politics.

He has grown in popularity since 1969 because of the role those troops have played: the maintenance of the link between the North of Ireland and Britain. the continua denia of the right of the Irish people as a whole to rule themselves; the murder repression of those who fight for that right.

Paisley Is a British creation, because he is the foremost advocate of the British presence in ireland D which he is sustained and on which he IN TRUE blue Tory style Margaret

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psychiatry Never mind the Pope, get the troops out