Cure de rigueur for the British mass

The Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) George Osborne. The solemn, dark suit and tie, the Minister of Finance, George Osborne, has not skimped on the dramatic effects of race. "Today marks the day the UK away from the edge of the precipice" , he hammered yesterday, before starting playback of a drastic cost-cutting plan over four years. "The road will be difficult," continued the Tory minister, causing chills and murmurs in the ranks of Masse in the House of Commons. While details of the cuts, the largest since the end of World War II, was revealed, the whispers turned into uproar, then screams sometimes in the ranks of the opposition, to the point that the speaker (President the room) had to intervene several times to restore calm. Unfazed, except for glass of water he has stopped wearing his lips, George Osborne continued his litany funeral. Not one ministry, not an allowance (for families, the unemployed, housing or the disabled) that is not affected by this plan. The objective is to reduce the public deficit from 10.1% of GDP in 2010 to 1.1% in 2015 with the completion of 83 billion pounds of savings (95 billion euros). Plus additional 30 billion pounds of tax increases.

Redundancies. Two ads were particularly a surprise. Almost 500 000 jobs would be lost in the civil service by 2014-2015 and, although many of them will be voluntary separations, the Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted that redundancies were "unavoidable." Moreover, the retirement age for men and women will be raised to 66 years in 2020, six years earlier than originally scheduled deadline. "This is to remove waste and reform the welfare state, "said George Osborne, listing cuts in the budgets, on average 19%, less than the 25% previously mentioned. His own department, the Treasury will tighten the belt now with a 33% reduction in its budget. Only Health - who just recovered from decades of underinvestment under previous Conservative governments (before 1997) - and external development assistance will escape cuts in real terms. And, after a long standoff and intense discussions, the defense budget has been reduced by "only" 8%, while the Treasury initially wanted to go up to 12%. However, the announcement of the abolition by 2015 of 42,000 jobs in the defense sector, and the immediate retirement of the flagship of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal has caused Many tub. Including overseas, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had not hesitated to worry about cuts in the defense of a country in Afghanistan. "We're all in this together and we all must contribute "to the effort, said the minister, repeating that it was making" fair. "Even the Queen Elizabeth II has" graciously "to reduce the budget by 12% of the list calendar for the royal family.

Denial. Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, the other half of the ruling coalition, appeared to settle on his bench over the measures announced. Many of them are a complete denial of the election promises of training allied to the Conservatives. The Minister of Finance in the shadow cabinet of the opposition Labor Party, Alan Johnson, has described the plan as "reckless gamble" on the lives of people and warned of endangering the economic recovery by "a rush to deficit reduction. "