"The second on edoes seem to inducate an unexamined assumption that the assumption that reducing a deficit is all about cutting expenditure."

The cuts are about dealing with the deficit (at least on the surface - could it be there's an idealogical angle to them too?), nowhere have I said it's the only way they're being dealt with. It's just about the cuts OK?

Good news: The UK nuclear stockpile is to reduced by 25% - hooray.

Bad news: Cameron's just made 25,000 people jobless.