IT has been estimated by the Taxpayers alliance that Labour wastes £81 billion annually on useless projects and bureaucracy - equivalent to £4,000 for every UK family.

At least 500 spending cuts could be made without having to close a single school, hospital or care home. But implementing such cuts, a future UKIP government could abolish national insurance contributions and inheritance tax and reduce the government's spending by a sixth.

Examples of new Labour waste: Patricia Hewitt spent £120,000 on plants for her department. In one year £25,000 was used to either buy or rent potted plants for her offices!

Between 2002 and 2005 the home office spent £100m on the upkeep of empty houses for asylum seekers.

NHS wasted more than £2.3b in cost overruns on I.T schemes, a further £200m was used to treat 100,000 health tourists from overseas.

£225,000 went on a campaign to give senior citizens advice on the dangers of ill fitting slippers.

The arts council gave £77,000 to a team of artists, they used the money to travel to the north Pole where they made a snow sculpture.

Two Sussex police officers were sent on a £5,000 six week trip to San Francisco to study gay community relations.

Kingston Prison Portsmouth, had a Pagan priest at £11.56 per hour plus expenses to give guidance to three prisoners who were converted to paganism.

Asylum seekers who's applications are rejected are given up to £17,000 if they have offspring under the age of 18. In 2003-2004, £308m was given to 18,500 illegal immigrants with children under 18.

In 2004, the home office spent £74m hiring 142 consultants.

Overtime totalling £500,000 was paid to six Essex police officers to come in on their days off and operate speed cameras.

Since 2000 more than 50,000 administrative jobs have been created in the NHS.

One in every two new jobs created is in the public sector. Simply cutting department budgets and reducing civil servants could save £21.5b every year. Since Labour came to power, more then 600,000 civil servants have been added to the public payroll. Do we really need them?

The benefits system is also in need of root and branch reform. In 2005, £475m was given to claimants by 'mistake'. In an average year, benefit fraud costs us £2b.

It has been estimated that at least 900,000 people currently on incapacity benefit are capable of working.

By getting these people back into work, UKIP would save the taxpayer another £2.5b every year. If only 10 per cent of quangos were scrapped, another £2.5b would be saved. Reducing the number of MP's and abolishing the Welsh assembly and Scottish Parliament would also save millions.

The British people are sick and tired of our elected representatives wasting their money. All government departments must be forced to use our money more wisely.

Financing politically correct schemes must end. Bureaucracy and red tape must be slashed. We need smaller government and, above all, less interference in our lives.