Is Cameron slowly winning the argument on public service reform?

davidk

Accepting the need for OTHER PEOPLE to take the spending cuts is nearer the truth in describing the public mood.

Expect a severe case of 'not my job/service, guv' when the hammer comes crashing down. 'More for less' will ring a bit hollow at that point.

JohnPage

The graph shows public agreement rising before the last two elections, and dropping fast after the previous two. Let's see the next few months' numbers.

Maggie

New Labour never could tell the difference between people temporarily "living in poverty" through no fault of their own and people who had voluntarily taken up poverty as a career path in order to cash in on the £billions made available to anyone judged to be poor. (See also disability) Workers and mortgagees who struggle to be responsible for their own lives are perpetually outraged by having to prop up the undeserving poor and their armies of supporters and outreach workers at the expense of their own families.
The more cuts the coalition introduces the more hope and optimism there will be.

ajs

This "August" style comment stuff reminds me of Odysseus' wife Penelope un-doing the work on her shroud each night. The suitors didn't catch on. But I think we readers of the Glorious Press of the UK have caught on to you scribblers. Take a holiday - and better still, DON'T write silly articles about it. Let's have peace and quiet at least until you have sent your brats back to school (along with Mrs Abbott's probably?).

Richard of York

The old hacks working well..(like grouse beaters) working the game into the killing field.
"Should be a bumper day old Cleggers, got the Lab warmed up and the Ely ammo bag stocked to the brim"
Now lets see what happens when the birds go up and the sky is full of shot, will the people think and feel the same way?
These cuts somehow never sound so bad in a tory newspaper, might be a little different in reality.
Just like Cheryl Cole ...lovely on the cover of vogue but a short arsed annoying Geordie up close with or without the £1000 hair extensions (which look great in the ads too)

lola

Of course you can get 'more for less every day'. It's what fredom and markets do automatically if left to get on with it.

Simon Mennie

RoY

Actually it's Eley not Ely.

You are absolutely right about Cheryl Cole though.

Coco The Clown

Ely is an Island in the Fens with a magnificent cathedral. Eley is a well known cartridge manufacturer. I know this because I have fired plenty of Eleys near Ely. And caught a few Eels too.

I don't believe this graph for one minute. As a public sector worker in a job I won't mention - (which I used to think was a vocation and higher calling requiring significant personal sacrifice but the Boy George and Call Me Please pay my mortgage on my Costwold Stone pile Dave and has made the scales fall from my eyes)- as I was saying, I feel very concerned about my future, the pension I have already earned while Call Me Dave was getting his mortgage interest paid off and life in general. Meanwhile I see my tax pounds continue to pour into the Neathergate Sands and the relentless maw of the NHS and Welfare State. I suspect I'll be being robbed while that meatgrinder continues its inexorable path. I won't have an inheritance, book and lecture tour to cash out on or I'd probably be saying we are all in together as well.
Gordon Brown and Tony Blair blew the bank doors off and these Coalition clowns are now machine gunning the dazed customers as they stagger out into the street. I smell stagnation.

Chris lancashire

Optimism is rising simply because we don't have Brown and Balls in charge.

John Richardson

Coco The Clown.

Coco, entertaining IS a vocation.
Don't lose heart, but if I might make one suggestion...perhaps lighten up a little ? Especially for smaller children & Cameron fans. They won't understand all this talk of graphs & pensions butchering dazed customers.

Stick to the balloons.