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Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of "difficult decisions" on pay, pensions and benefits as he set out the case for "painful" cuts ahead.
says BBC News Online

Meanwhile Alistair Darling says:
If you don't get growth you will not get your borrowing, you will not get your debt down, and there is absolutely no sign that this government grasps that.


Mr Darling obviously doesn't grasp that this government does want to 'get your borrowing' but wants to pay it back instead of paying out £70bn a year solely to service the debt.

The public service unions are similarly out of touch:
Hugh Lanning, deputy general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, told the BBC Mr Cameron's speech was "trying to paint the public sector as a problem."


Mr Lanning obviously doesn't understand the meaning of the acronym PSBR. Of course it's the bloody problem. There is too much of it and it has to shrink.

Story here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10250603.stm
Mr Darling argued Britain had a "comparatively small structural deficit" going into the recession and until 2008 the Tories had supported their spending plans.


I would not call a structural deficit of 5% (at least) of GDP 'comparatively small', but Mr Darling is right about the Tories not making all that much noise about it until the Banks went pear-shaped.

Mr Lanning also said

But the debt wasn't caused by the public sector - it was caused by the banks and the financial crisis


which is a load of mendacious rubbish as the PSBR got bigger every year after 2002 when it should have been going down or disappearing and turning into a surplus.
I agree. The country was going to the dogs already but sadly the banks shot the dogs so have got the blame.
The banks were culpable to a degree of course, but unfortunately all the manufacturing industries have left the red tape and bureaucracy behind and abandoned the country, leaving it to be supported by the banks and financial institutions. If we punish them too, they will also leave and turn the country's near bancruptcy into an actual one.
A lot of the banks are now foreign anyway

HSBC is based in USA and was Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

Santanter (Abbey/Bradford and Bingley/Alliance and Leicester) is based in Spain.

Most of the others are based in Scotland which is also a foreign country these days isn't it.
Most of the others are based in Scotland which is also a foreign country these days isn't it.


So are England and Wales.
Well "People" are going to be asked what to spend the tax money on and what not.

I am people so I need to find out how to have my say.
Suggestions on the back of a plain brown envelope to the PM please.

Here's a couple for starters:
Pare back with a sharp knife the previous government's obsession with (to quote Neil Kinnock) bloody facts and bloody figures.

Abandon pension credits. They can cost three times to administer compared to what they pay out. Better to pay a little less to all pensioners as basic pension, which is relatively cost effective to deliver, and get rid of means testing altogether.



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