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Can the Tories get any worse?
Brutal Osborne hits us with £25,000,000,000 more cuts
Chancellor George Osborne launched the most vicious assault yet on public services and welfare yesterday in his crusade to build a paradise for speculators and bankers.
He announced devastating extra cuts of £25 billion after 2015, including further welfare cuts of £12bn.
The year 2014 would be "a year of hard truths," he warned.
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