It must be the 80s again!

Cuts didn't seem as bad as I thought they would be, expecting people to be begging on the streets, it may not be quite that bad. The part about taxing banks and financial institutions to the maximum cheered me. I still believe that income tax revenue needs to be increased for the highest earners though. The NHS and schools seem to have escaped the worst which is good. Local councils are screwed, but council tax is frozen, so less services for the same money. The benefits changes seem fair to me, no one should get more on benefits than working-seems logical really! Child benefit has gone for the rich, but whose going to cry for them? Universities and their funding wasn't covered, but fees will double, and that is simply unacceptable.The Liberals really need to push back on that point, in exchange for the rest. How is it fair to expect new students to pay double for the same end product, especially as the last generation didn't pay anything. Nobody wants to keep on working until 66, but that is a reality we will have to accept, real piss off if you are 54 today as it means instead of retiring in 10 years time, you have another 16 years to go! I don't know anyone who has been able to retire at 60 anyway, so, same same.
New council tenants will have to pay 80% of the market rent, which will be a bit difficult in London! Here in the North, it is impossible to get a new council house or flat anyway unless you are a one legged lesbian with 7 kids on the run from the Romanian gestapo, so that doesn't affect anyone!
Unemployment will soar, and quickly too.This is real 'Boys From The Black Stuff' unemployment. The government have said half a million will be laid off, but once those people have stopped buying crap from Top Shop and HMV, the knock-on effect will be huge.
The debt needs to be paid and this is a start, and after a few more tweaks to get more from the very rich it could work, but at what cost? 4million on the dole? Rubbish on the streets, council buildings falling into disrepair, civil unrest due to police cuts, undermanned military, all we need is for Argentina to invade the Falklands again(as we are retiring aircraft carriers for ten years! And Harrier jets, and throwing away the £3.5bn spent on Nimrod, even though they are already ready to be delivered and ready to fly), so record unemployment, impotent local councils, housing shortages,very unhappy students, and a weak military, but the rich are okay-it must be the 80s again or a Conservative government!
Chris Mercer.20.10.10