Coalition announces £10.5bn of cuts ahead of budget

Alexander - "boy wonder, sellin' BOGOF visits to the stately homes of Scotland one week, chief secretary to the treasury the next with cut affecting millions of people - another set of lunatics running the same asylum

Mike, do you really think Alexander made all these decisions all on his own in the 2 months think you need to get reall. It's the other Lunatics that we just kicked out that got us to here. We are all going to have to take some pain

Damn' typical of Labour,getting us in this mess and then complaining about cuts!

Liam'no money left' Byrne says it all really.Complete prat!

Uh? just a minute.....a £24m visitor centre at Stonehenge for the Olympics?? someone must have been taking the p**s with that one! Maybe they were going to build it a mile away so visiters had to run (on a special track) to get there.......anyway it's a bunch of stones in beautiful countryside that you can see from the road!.........of course cancel it, typical Looney-left

Just where does Liam Byrne think the money is going to come from if we do not implement cuts? He seemed to be aware that there is no money left so why is he critical of cuts? We cannot borrow for ever and it should end right now and the UK should get into the habit of living within its means. I am not willing to pay increased taxes to subsidise welfare bums and armies of civil servants who do little of value although it seems as though I will be obliged to for the foreseeable future to pay for the mess caused by New Labour.

Short memories

Seems people forget that the US led us into the biggest recession ever that was only averted by the last government leading the UK and others out of it. Required massive spending (who would have lost most if the banks failed!) that was universally agreed as necessary, including by the LibDems and even, reluctantly, the Conservatives. We are now ConDem'ned to ignoramuses both in government and elsewhere with highly selective memories rewriting history.

Did you see Blanchflower's comments and other prominent economists warning about ConDem's spiral of debt? Massive cuts now leads to no growth, leads to more massive debt, leads to more massive cuts leads to longer no growth, leads....... Again it will be the middle classes that pay as always under the Tories.

The Public Sector MUST take it share of the pain by:-

1. Removal of unfunded final salary pensions. After all Bigot Brown killed them off in the private sector by removing dividend tax relief on pension funds. Just how cynical was that.

2 MP's and Lords expenses to be means tested and made even less generous and even abolished for the Lords altogether. Plus attendance allowances and especially for MP's who claim salaries but never turn up. The "IRA" MP's that is Gerry Adams and co.

3.Cuts in health service pay and a massive cull of bureaucrats as recommended in the recent NHS report that was shelved!

4.Abolishen of paid sick leave for all civil servants as they abuse it so.

5. Long term unemployment benefits/social security pay to be axed. Cash for Work only schemes to replace it.

6. Abolishen of bonuses in state owned banks.

After all this is Austerity Britain.

Why should anyone take a blind bit of notice from anybody connected to the previous Labour Government?

Never, as at any time before, has there been a need for a dose of reality about the actual dire straits Labour's legacy has left us all with.

Do gooders, politically correctnessers, public sector drones (not front liners), what a shambles.

Get real; as jock strap says, we are in real austerity Britain!

And Gordy Brown?..where he? Exactly where he should be - invisible and invisible.

Maybe, just maybe we have a government that has the cohones actually to make the necessary cuts. Anyone who has seen a planning response from a local authority will know that the pen pushers have really taken over. If you want to see the true extent of our problem buy the Wednesday edition of the Guardian and look at the "Society" section and the ads for assorted jobsworths. It will make your hair stand on end.

Good idea abolish the Groniad (Guardian) and all those who read it.

Job Done.