Cheesy said:
The cuts you are on about would have been put in place by whichever party got into power so that's a moot point I'm afraid (though I guess you know that as you're not stupid). However, the reason they will have to be so deep is because of the level of debt this Labour government has got us into.
By the way, I hate the Daily Mail :-)
I look at Greece and think if a country that isn't pumping as much as we are into "war" that isn't trying to "save the world" as we and the US seem to love doing, then, it could be far worse.
I can't champion the Tory party because they're built from a culture from which i completely disagree with, i'll respect him if he makes the right, tough decisions as in this material time, he'll become greatly unpopular by the mases who are ignorant to most politics.
There'll be no real winners here; Labour are out of power and Tory/Lib Dems will either fuck us up worse or do the right thing and be hated for it.