At last the phoney war is over. For months it has been clear that Britain's fiscal mess is Augean. Poll after poll has shown that voters know big spending cuts are unavoidable. The government's own budget in April indicated stringencyrnahead, to those prepared to dig beneath its surface. Yet politicians refused to get real. The Tories talked the austerity talk in such general terms that no seriously uncomfortable prescriptions were discernible.
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