How do you solve a problem like the budget?.....

In the UK we are beset by an horrific budget defecit which is seriously limiting the availability of government finance, and indeed seriously limiting the governments ability to engage fiscal economic controls. Unless we are very careful we are at risk of seeing our currency adversley affected as well as seeing our inflation rate rising. Already we are ina  position whereby household incomes have fallen in real terms to the levels they were at ten years ago, and recent reoprts suggest that this situation is only likely to worsen. Coupled to this we must consider that unemployment is rising, and that the job market is largely stagnant, particularly in the regions. It is also clear that the housing bubble, has, if not burst, then at least is slowly deflating. We seem to have avoided the catastrophic housing price collapse that theDaily Mail regularly likes to scare its readers with, but that is not to say that it isnt still a possibility.

So, what are we, and more specifically our poklitical leaders going to do about this? David Cameron seems fully committed to a programme of engaging communities to bring forward voluteerism to shoulder some of the burden faced by the NHS and particularly the care sector. In addition he seems to feel that by driving change in the most deprived areas he can alleviate some of the costs to government of rising poverty levels. Personally I think he is going about this in completely the wrong way, since the blitz spirit that he seems to be trying to engender was a grass roots movement caused by the extreme desperation of a global conflict. At present much of the worst news regarding the economy is being supressed and it will only be when there is complete open-ness about our national situation that the general public will understand how precarious our position is.

I strongly believe that Mr Cameron et al are failing to give the British public the respect they deserve in terms of assuming that open-ness will lead to societal collapse. I would suggest that the time for sugar coating the pill is long over. As a population we are acutrely aware that we are in trouble, and are aware that there will have to be significant sacrifices that must be made. We are prepared for these sacrifices, we understand what must be done. As a nation we are well used to hardship and struggle and we are strong enough to cope. I would graetly appreciate it if our leaders came clean, held there hands up to the mistakes that have been made, humbly and sincerely apologised for mis-leading the British public and started to work tgether, not just as a coalition but across party divides to try to fix the problems that we face. Only by doing this can the British public be moved from their current position of cynicism with regard to oplitics and be engaged to take the necessary steps to make our nation great once again.....