The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 22nd October 2010
Lead story
Savage cuts
By Daphne Liddle
CHANCELLOR George Osborne’s long-awaited spending review contained the expected savage cuts in public spending but also a lot of promises to keep spending on certain sensitive concerns, with arithmetic that just could not be reconciled with those promises.
THE CON-DEM government last Tuesday announced its intention to cut the social housing budget by over 50 per cent, to end council tenancies for life and the passing on of council tenancies from parents to their adult offspring still living at home.
