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Spending Review: 10 Things Worse Than George Osborne's £10 Burger

10 Things Worse Than George Osborne's £10 Burger
Andrea Mann
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Some are up in arms that a millionaire spent £10 on a burger. Us? Not so much. Probably because that seems like a fairly normal price for a burger in London (see also: the £4 pint).

What's rather more worrying, we feel, are some of the cuts and other proposals that George Osborne announced in his spending review this week. They've been attacked by charities, local authorities, unions, the Catholic Church and more - and here are 10 of them. They're not exactly laugh-a-minute - but they're all far, far worse than spending £10 on a burger...

Spending Review: 10 Things Worse Than A £10 Burger
(01 of10)
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1. Councils now face the worst spending cuts since World War II.
(02 of10)
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2. Jobseekers will have to wait a week before receiving unemployment benefits."This will leave more families and children cold and hungry and push more families towards doorstep lenders and foodbanks," said the Child Poverty Action Group.
(03 of10)
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3. The scrapping of automatic progression pay rise and pay grading in the public sector – meaning those working in our police service, hospitals, schools, prisons and civil service will all see their pay frozen.
(04 of10)
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4. Police spending to be cut by 10%. “We would be very interested to hear how the government proposes forces should function with even more scant resources,” said Steve Williams, chair of the Police Federation.
(05 of10)
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5. Benefit claimants who don't speak English will be required to attend language courses "until they do" or face losing their benefits.
(06 of10)
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6. The cutting of £100m from the National Scholarship Programme, a fund to help poor students reach university.
(07 of10)
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7. Single parents of three- and four-year-olds will be forced to regularly attend jobcentres in order to get a job when their child is five.
(08 of10)
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8. All jobseekers will be required to travel to job centres every week, rather than once a fortnight.
(09 of10)
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9. Freezing of university student maintenance grants - which means they are being cut by £60 million in real terms in 2015/16.
(10 of10)
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10. A budget cut of 10% at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. "The new cuts will inevitably fall on those services protecting wildlife and nature and preventing water and air pollution," notes The Guardian.
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