[Margaret Pilkington]

I am not, repeat, NOT defending anyone. How can I defend a government that I didn't vote for ?
What I have to defend, is the fact that someone is recognising that speedy action has to be taken to remedy what is, an awful debt.

I am just living in the real world where goods and services have to be paid for.
Unlike you, I do not blindly follow a political dogma regardless of what a logical analysis of the situation shows. And that isn't patronising either, despite what you might think.
I am just telling it like it is.