[user104658]

This is what worries me as well Mock; that the Tories have everyone whooping about saving money so much that there seems to be some sort of idea that "permanent austerity" would be a good thing. How will the country grow? How will it modernise? Even if you do believe in austerity, it is supposed to be a TEMPORARY measure and at some point there MUST be a return to investment in our infrastructure, education, and general wellbeing. If there isn't, then in a few short decades we will simply be left behind by the rest of the modern world. Towns will continue to degrade (and they are already dated and embarrassing), roads, other services will all stagnate... I don't understand why any "proud" citizen of a country would celebrate that?