Tory cuts kill DEATH, disaster and destruction _ that's what this winter has brought us. As many as 700 people a day are dying from cold.
even weather can be political.
In Tory Britain survival of the fittest is the official credo. here's been sno Mooding several weeks, bitter COlO ano throughout the country. The government has bare ly twitched a muscle While sioners freeze to death because of fear of heating bills or starve because of fear of going out on the dangerous streir hands Tories keep their tightly gripped on the public expenditure purse.
waroare Thatcher declared only last weekend unal she'd impose evel tougher bubli spending if she thought sh CULS could get away with it This week the government finally agreed to contribute to the financing of local authority emergency services. But only oecace expectation that the will bear the ocduue. brunt of the cost.
There clear guidance to the country which Thatcher says she is so 'passionate' about She hasn't said, 'Set up emergency centres, provide food and heat io: miuse al risk, sel up iean.: to seek out the sick and the old alic vulnetdne mobilise the entire pro • and hang the Dulalivll expense.' No, Tory priorities lie Hiakille capitalism stronger — no matter what the cost in private suffering.
So means that emergency services and facilities have been run down — from road gritters to ambulances It means three million unemployed, with tens of thousands children vulnerable to cold because of lack of money to pa! fuel bills or buy high protein food It means fewer ambulances to take the ill to hospital, even if they could move along the uncleared roads.
means hospital resources stretched meet the demands of the situation. One X-ray unit reporting 100 broken limbs a day instead of the usual 30 a week.
And eventually, Tory policies will mean an even greater drop in the standard of living of all working people when higher food prices hit the shops in the next period.
won't hear thi Tories talking of food subsidies.
Natural disasters can't nevoldecpemaos but unnatural disasters like the Tories can. It's time tor : and not phofits fise? society that people
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The official explana- tion is that this is a 'natural disaster'. But