January 16, 2010 - By BNP News

The Conservative Party has promised “immediate and massive” cuts in public spending — except in foreign aid and foreign wars, where both they and the Labour Party have announced plans to increase spending.

In a speech at the London School of Economics, Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne warned that “delaying cuts could damage the UK’s credibility” and that his party would “start to cut public spending straightaway if they won the General Election.”

The estimated Government deficit of nearly £200 billion would, Mr Osborne announced, be cut by the Tories through slashing “spending on advertising” and cutting tax credits for “people earning more than £50,000.” In addition, Mr Osborne identified “child trust funds for better-off families as an area where savings could be made.”

In a later interview with the Financial Times, Mr Osborne went on to claim that Britain should cut 12 percent spending cuts while emphasising “social cohesion” and “co-operation with the trade unions.”

The phrasing used by Mr Osborne reflects precisely how close the Tories are to the Labour Party, which introduced a cabinet post for “social cohesion” and who cross-subsidise the trade unions with taxpayers’ money.

Other cuts proposed by Mr Osborne include a one-year public sector pay freeze.

As the Financial Times pointed out, when all of the proposed Tory cuts are added up, they still only amount to £7 billion — well short of the £200 billion deficit.

It is obvious that the Tory plan involves massive tax increases across the board as in terms of their warped vision, dealing with the deficit means making British people pay more, rather than reducing obvious excess and waste.

For example, the Conservative manifesto, as publish on their website, specifically announces massive increases in foreign aid spending which must amount, they say, to 0.7 percent of Britain’s Gross National Income by 2013.

These billions of pounds, the Tories say, are “ring fenced” — in other words, they cannot be touched.

The sameness of the Tory-Labour Tweedledee Tweedledum confidence trick was however revealed in a press statement by Labour’s foreign development minister Douglas Alexander, as published on his department’s website on 15 January 2010.

That statement revealed that Mr Alexander has presented a bill to Parliament which will make us the “first G8 country to publish legislation on how much it will spend on international development.”

Mr Alexander said the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill will “place a legal duty on the Government to ensure 0.7 percent of Gross National Income (GNI) is spent on official development assistance (ODA) every year from 2013.”

Sound familiar? It should be — it is identical to the Tory policy as on their website.

In other words, the Tory-Labour axis demands more money from the already bankrupt treasury be spent on foreign aid, increased spending on the disastrous Afghanistan war, and the continuation of the ongoing immigration and asylum swindle — while simultaneously insisting on increased taxes and spending cuts at home.

Voters for those parties are indeed turkeys voting for Christmas.