UK government cancels a number of Labour projects
The UK government has this week stepped in to cancel billions of pounds of previous Labour Party projects as a tightening of the UK public sector purse continues. The range of projects which have been cancelled, or delayed, is enormous taking in relatively small operations to multibillion pound training programs. While many have welcomed this move as sensible there are some who are up in arms about a backtracking on earlier promises.
In David Cameron and George Osborne's defence they had little option but to cancel a number of forthcoming projects as a means of sharing the pain of enormous public sector budget cuts to come. By sharing his pain across the board the government is showing an understanding of the situation and no bias to any one sector or any one group of the UK public. Whether this will prove to be a successful strategy or indeed alienate more people than ever before is a risk which David Cameron and his government had to take.
The truth of the matter is that these project cancellations are just the tip of the iceberg as George Osborne gets set to wield the axe on a number of initiatives announced by the previous Labour government.
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