Sarah Carr demands honesty over Public Finance Mess and Government spending Cuts
3.43.14pm BST (GMT +0100) Tue 30th Jun 2009
With public finances in a mess, huge debt and spending cuts on the way, Sarah Carr, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hereford and South Herefordshire has called for honesty in what, why and when cuts to government spending will be made by an incoming government.
Under Vince Cable MP's guidance as Shadow Chancellor the Liberal Democrats are the only mainstream party to have laid out a list of cuts already identified to save tax-payers money following the multi-billion pound bail-out of the banking industry. Sarah Carr said,
"People need to know what cuts are planned - not just a figure plucked from the air to be applied across all government departments which means the good is cut with the bad. Disadvantaged groups such as older people and the mentally ill must not suffer as a result of across the board cuts.
"The Liberal Democrats are the only mainstream party to say how they will save billions of pounds of taxpayers money including that they will not renew Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent system with an equivalent modernised system, that they will axe the NHS IT system, axe the ID card scheme and other databases that cost millions of pounds. The Liberal Democrats have also committed to ripping out waste from the system including the functions of overlapping government departments, tick box operations and the hidden pay rises of very senior civil servants.
"The Conservative party also needs to be honest with people about the painful cuts they would make to our government services and not leave it to after an election to announce their real plans."
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