Our Chancellor has the mentality of a Bean Counter and we all know what happens to Companies or Countries that are run by Bean Counters.
The chronic short termist approach of just cutting enough expenditure to avoid bankruptcy just leads to a downward spiral of even more cuts ad infinitum until the final humiliation of a full scale sterling devaluation followed by a bail out from the IMF.
George has had his chance and has blown it. Unless someone with some extraordinary fiscal expertise and a little more imagination can be found I fear we are on a slippery slope to find out what real austerity means. Maybe we will see a return to the ration book as food, power and fuel spiral forever upward in cost and our buying power dwindles.