Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Per previous this isn't some decimation of the public sector, reducing it to running the entire state on a shoe string over a period of a couple of months, it's reducing spending to the percentage of the country's productivity it was in the middle of the last decade over a period of five years.

Again - this is small change - the scale of cuts required to correct the government's overspend is enormous. This budget is ring fenced and already accounted for. There is no need for us to stop sharing some small part of our prosperity with the rest of the world so that we can continue to mortgage our children to gorge ourselves on an unsustainable state.