[Osem]

Wherever the axe falls some, maybe many, people will feel hard done by. To what extent those feelings are justified is a matter of opinion, however, and I reckon those who've worked hard, paid their taxes and been prudent have a right to feel more upset than those who've come to rely on the state to fund their lives for no other reason than it's been made too easy for them to do it. Of course, in the middle, there are those who've fallen upon hard times through no fault of their own and are truly deserving of state assistance and they too are now going to suffer more than they should largely because of that element who've made a conscious decision to live off the state and have been allowed to get away with it for far too long.

I must agree that eradicating the sort of institutionalised wastage and ineptitude displayed by the likes of the MOD ought to come first, however. Whatever happens to the men and women in suits who've cost us so many unnecessary £billions over the decades? They never seem to get sacked and where are the politicians crying out for their heads along with those of the pesky bankers? The public sector unions rather like slating the City fat cats but you never hear them commenting on the abject failure of their own members and the massive cost to society thereof.