The Budget

[Mark]

Don't blame you at all for any of that. You've every right to be all of those things. I sincerely hope you (and everyone else here) don't suffer as a result of all this but also can see that the line has to be drawn somewhere.

The fact that despite all these cuts Government spending is still predicted to rise by £74bn over the next five years speaks volumes. Most of that is simply debt interest payments.

Just imagine the results of not making the cuts. Not only would that have been substantially higher, but the market would likely have taken fright and demanded higher interest payments on the increased debt. That's exactly what happened to Greece.