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| − | Spending on Health, Energy and International Development will not be reduced, though all may have a real-terms reduction due to inflation. The Cabinet Office, which runs government in a sense, will have cuts, but will have a spending increase due to taking on lots of duties from the abolished government bodies. | + | Spending on Health, Energy and International Development will not be reduced, though all may have a real-terms reduction due to inflation. The Cabinet Office, which runs government in a sense, will have cuts, but will have a spending increase due to taking on lots of duties from the abolished government bodies. The National Health Service to be massively reorganised, with bureaucracy to be cut down on by the abolition of Primary Care Trusts - the bloated government bodies which run hospitals in a certain area. Instead, committees of doctors will prioritise spending in their areas. The International Development department will be expected not to increase the amount spent on aid, but to still make efficiency cuts, spend less on hospitality and to make redundancies. |
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| | + | The BBC, the public broadcasting service in the United Kingdom, is often accused of being left-wing.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308215/Yes-BBC-biased-Mark-Thompson-admits-massive-lean-Left.html</ref><ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-475412/The-BBC-A-cauldron-hate-Margaret-Thatcher.html</ref> Meanwhile, conservatives in the United Kingdom are often accused of wanting to 'cut up' or privatise the BBC.<ref>http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/5200068/will-the-tories-attack-the-bloated-bbc.thtml</ref> In reality, the conservatives have frozen the BBC budget for 6 years (a large real-term cut, due to inflation) and have given it more responsibilities, ending extra funding for Welsh language television, for example. |
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| | ==Devolved Government Spending== | | ==Devolved Government Spending== |
| − | Since Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have control of their own budgets in some areas, while the United Kingdom government makes spending decisions for England, the budgets for all three will be cut by between six and twelve percent. It will be, ultimately, the decisions of the devolved governments to decide which services should be cut, within their new budgets. | + | Since Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have control of their own budgets in some areas, while the United Kingdom government makes spending decisions for England, the budgets for all three will be cut by between six and twelve percent. It will be, ultimately, the decisions of the devolved governments to decide which services should be cut, within their new budgets. The leaders of these three devolved governments have spoken out against the cuts, however they are all more left-wing and anti-Thatcherism than the majority of the United Kingdom, England. |
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| | + | ==References== |
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| | + | ==See Also== |
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| | + | * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11583746 BBC breakdown of spending cuts] |