Broken promises of the Conservative - led coalition government
Here is the list of Tory and Lib Dem broken promises featured on the Labour Party '2010 Coalition Christmas' advent calendar.
1. No frontline cuts
2. Protecting the NHS budget
3. 3,000 more police officers
4. Keeping VAT at 17.5%
5. Keeping the Future Jobs Fund
6. Keeping Education Maintenance Allowances
7. Preserving tax credits for middle earners
8. Removing the “couple penalty”
9. Scrapping tuition fees
10. No bonuses for bank directors
11. 3,000 more midwives
12. Three more army battalions |
13. Pupil Premium additional to the schools budget
14. Keeping Child Benefit universal
15. Stopping A&E and maternity closures
16. A Post Office Bank
17. No new nuclear power stations
18. Removing high marginal tax rates
19. No cuts to the Royal Navy
20. Automatic prison sentence for carrying a knife
21. Cutting rail fares each year
22. Keeping the Child Trust Fund for the poorest families
23. No more top down NHS reorganisations
24. No cuts to public spending this year |
08/12/2010
Hard proof that the Government is breaking its promise on NHS funding - John Healey
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley faces calls to come clean on the Government’s funding for the health service, as Labour challenged him with hard proof of a real terms decrease in NHS spending during the course of the Parliament.
John Healey MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary said:
“Updated inflation forecasts in last week’s Office of Budget Responsibility report show that for the next four years, the inflation increase will be bigger than the cash increase for the NHS. This is hard proof that the Government is breaking its promise to protect NHS funding.
“Andrew Lansley needs to come clean and explain to the public why the government has broken the promises it made on the NHS - promises that were at the heart of the Tory election, central to the Coalition Agreement and repeated at the Spending Review.”
13/10/2010
Nick Clegg appeals to Lib Dems over tuition fees - Telegraph
Nick Clegg has written to Lib Dem MPs in an attempt
to suppress a revolt over tuition fees. Photo: PA The Lib Dem leader
wrote to MPs urging them to consider tearing up a pre-election pledge
to oppose fee increases.
In a letter to
the Parliamentary party, he said he was “painfully aware”
of the promise made by all sitting MPs but insisted reforms to
higher education would be fair to students and promote social
mobility.
His intervention came as the party’s former
leader became the latest Lib Dem to attack an increase in university
fees.
Sir Menzies Campbell said he would vote against
plans to raise the fees cap amid fears it would harm access to degree
courses.
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05/10/2010
How
ConDem government has changed its tune on child benefit - Daily
Mirror
In opposition and
during the election campaign, Conservative and Lib Dem politicians
repeatedly pledged to keep universal child benefit.
David
Cameron specifically ruled out any changes. As did George Osborne,
Nick Clegg and other Tory and Lib Dem frontbenchers. This is what
they said... "We will preserve child benefit, winter fuel
payments and free TV licences. They are valued by millions."
- George Osborne, Conservative Party Conference, October 2009.
"There are some things we have specifically
ruled out. Take the issue of child benefit. Of course any party
would have to look at it but my judgment is that it is a good
benefit, it goes straight to the mother, it is very simple."
- David Cameron, Sky News, May 3, 2010.
"There are some benefits and I think
child benefit is one of them, where actually I think it's quite
important that everybody, rich or poor, wherever they live, feels
they have got a stake in it." - Nick Clegg, The Politics
Show, March 7 2010.
"We are not cutting child benefit. (There is)
absolutely no threat to child benefit." - George Osborne,
Radio 5 Live, March 11, 2010.
And what George Osborne said yesterday: "A
system that taxes working people at high rates only to give it back
in child benefit is very difficult to justify at a time like this."
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Pie chart below
also from the Daily Mirror showing benefits spending for 2010-11
The Daily Mirror Illustrator may have got his
millions and billions confused (UK benefits exceeded £150
billion for 2009), but the chart is still useful for understanding
how the money is spent.
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