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British People Put Last: Schools, NHS Face Cuts — But Foreign Aid Budget Increases

A careful analysis of this week’s budget has shown that Government spending on essential services at home such as the NHS and schools will be cut next year — while the foreign aid budget continues to grow.

According to the budget, huge cuts are going to be made in infrastructure provision in Britain over the next four years, from £50 billion this year to £22 billion by the 2013–14 financial year.

Capital expenditure on hospitals and schools currently accounts for £13 billion. This figure is set to drop to £6 billion over the next four years, which translates into a combined cut of more than £20 billion.

This means that despite rising demand, investment in extra wards and other healthcare facilities for British people will be more than halved over the next four years.

At the same time, the foreign aid budget is set to increase from its current £9 billion budget to £13 billion over the next few years.

Recent projects announced by the Department for International Development (the foreign aid section of the UK government) include a £38 million grant aimed at “reducing extreme poverty in 69,000 households” in Zambia and £10 million to “provide stable jobs for workers in Africa.”

In 2007/08 the biggest recipients of DFID’s multilateral aid were the European Commission (EC) which was given £1.2 billion, the World Bank Group which was given £493 million, and assorted UN agencies which were given £296 million.

The Labour government and the Conservative Party have both promised to “ring fence” and increase the foreign aid budget no matter what other cuts in expenditure have to be made.

The cuts to the health service and school infrastructure are even more shocking when they are compared to the ongoing expenditure of at least £3 billion per year on the war in Afghanistan, the billions spent on EU membership and the estimated £4 billion per year spent subsidising ‘asylum seekers’ in Britain.

Only the British National Party will call a halt to this Tory/Labour anti-British madness and ensure that British tax money is first and foremost spent on British people.

Pakistani workforce at council is boosted by recruitment drive

A COMMUNITY leader has praised a recruitment scheme, believed to be the only one in the country, aimed at increasing the number of Pakistani workers at Derby City Council.Shokat Lal said the Pakistani Recruitment Initiative Project had helped members of his community to find jobs at the council and also with private employersThe project, now ended after running for 12 months, was set up after the council realised it was failing to employ enough people from Derby's largest ethnic minority group, which it is required to do by law.Final figures are not yet available but by last November 43 Pakistani people had been recruited, compared to just 12 during 2007-8 and 22 between March 2008 and April 2009. Mr Lal said: "We had been concerned for about six years that Pakistani people were under-represented in the city council workforce.

"A series of initiatives were set up to encourage more ethnic minorities to try for jobs. These included job training and language lessons. "Although these were successful, it still left Pakistani people under-represented." The council then decided to set up the Pakistani Recruitment Initiative Project. Mr Lal thinks it has been successful, as it has offered practical help with CVs, interview techniques and work experience through day courses and work placements. He said: "People have been encouraged to do volunteering, shadowing people in jobs and helping with administrative work. As a result there are now a substantial number of people in employment. "The city council has been very courageous setting up the scheme, which I think is the only one in the country." One principal council officer was seconded to oversee the project at no extra cost. It led to 200 people registering online to receive help. A council spokesman said: "To have a city council of 12,000 employees that reflects the community there needs to be about 480 Pakistani people, which was a deficit of 288 as of last April." The spokesman said other ethnic minority groups in the city were not under-represented in the council workforce.