It was all so predictable.

'While people tell the pollsters they accept the need for reductions in public spending, they recoil from any ‘cut’ which may affect them personally. That’s precisely why the calculating council bosses are deliberately slashing popular services such as school crossing patrols and swimming pools, rather than taking a scythe to the vast waste and bureaucracy which infests practically every government department in the country.'

Mr Littlejohn is not wrong!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1357039/Those-wicked-Tory-cuts--women-children-first.html#ixzz1E08KmN5b