NIGEL Farage’s deputy has called for spending cuts equal to £274bn a year – more than five times the Truss government’s unfunded, turmoil-inducing plan.
Multimillionaire Richard Tice called for Government spending to fall from 45% of GDP to just 35%. Cuts on this scale would roughly equal the entire public funding of the NHS (£188.5bn a year), PLUS the Ministry of Defence (£54bn), the Home Office (>£20m), AND the Ministry of Justice (almost £12bn).
Christina McAnea of UNISON said in 2023: “[We have] the longest NHS waiting lists in history, huge cuts to police forces and councils going bust. Care services are unable to deliver… Inmates are escaping overcrowded prisons and unsafe schools are crumbling. Britain is broken. When spending is slashed, services crumble.”
A study by London School of Economics found that 190,000 excess deaths in the UK were directly linked to austerity cuts between 2010 and 2019.
