BRACE YOURSELVES

摘要

If they had happened under Tony Blair, the cuts would have been branded "the new realism". But the slashing, burning and pain to come in next month's Comprehensive Spending Review is now anything but new. This week, it was Nick Clegg's turn to continue with the depressing economic mood music on behalf of the coalition government, but after the shock of the education spending massacre, the cutbacks will probably provoke despair rather than anger.