Most people have heard about David Cameron's radio swearing gaffe on Absolute Radio, whilst talking about the popular social media site Twitter.

Whilst his language was bad his plans to cut spending across a range of Government departments is really offensive.

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 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.


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