UK Coalition Government Comprehensive Spending Review - Oct 20th 2010

UnderPressure

500 million to refurb Tyne Metro
m25 to widened
crossrail to go ahead along with tube upgrades etc etc

all seems to be linked to the olympics check sky news for the complete list

robin_banks

Has Dave nipped out for a fag yet ?.

UnderPressure

extra 500 million for regional growth fund

real increase in money for schools every year for next 4 years

schools budget up 4 billion to 39 billion

extra places for 16-19 year olds

15 hours education for 3 and 4 yr olds to continue

sure start scheme protected

15 hours free education and care for disadvantaged 2 year olds

education savings of 1%

15.8 billion to maintain schools and refurbish

skylight

What was the bit about Education Maintainance Allowance? I missed that bit (noisy kids)

housesitter

tomterm8 wrote: »

Hm, I wonder if that's why China has stopped sending rare earths to us;)

Har har

They probably understand that selling them is pretty dumb.
As is funding say Eastern Europe to build better infastructure so they can compete with our businesses easier.

China is just running around buying up entire mountains in South America for the mineral resourses. We on the other hand would have provided a loan to a local company for them to mine it for us at greater expense, possibly providing a source of embezzlement at the same time for some local fat cat.
Are we not supposed to be the Capitalists?

That said, a lot of so called rare earths are quite plentiful. It's just that China with it's lax employment and polution laws made it cheaper to wind down the mining in say the USA and import it.
China doing this means for many production will ramp back up elsewhere.


We should stop fall foreign funding altogether IMHO.
If things are so bad here, why on earth are we helping other countries out?

UnderPressure

total government cuts to be 19% over 4 years, lower than previously thought..........

doire_2

Nick Clegg sitting there like a nodding dog

UnderPressure

thats it, well what do we all think? The welfare bit was kind of brushed over quickly suspect there will be a lot more to come on this.

All details at https://www.skynews.com/spendingreview

JasonLVC

UnderPressure wrote: »

total government cuts to be 19% over 4 years, lower than previously thought..........

A nice way to end the speech, with a little dig at Labour - hard to resist I suppose.

Overall, no surprises, a little bit more meat on the bones but the devil is in the detail. I'm working my way through the full published documents right now.

But I thought it was a well-balanced and 'fair' speech, on saying that, I'm very interested in whyat this bank levy will be tomorrow - that'll determine, for me, whether this was truly a fair speech.

lemonpopcorn

UnderPressure wrote: »

extra 500 million for regional growth fund

real increase in money for schools every year for next 4 years

schools budget up 4 billion to 39 billion

extra places for 16-19 year olds

15 hours education for 3 and 4 yr olds to continue

sure start scheme protected

15 hours free education and car for disadvantaged 2 year olds

education savings of 1%

15.8 billion to maintain schools and refurbish

I thought 2 yr olds couldn't drive;)

nah seriously doing great job under pressure