I agree they're walking a tightrope, too far in either direction is bad. I said earlier that the tories will cut too far and in the wrong places, even tory MPs are saying that. At the end of the day the treasury gives each department a budget which they have to work within, they are all dancing to the treasury's tune and you get the feeling the treasury haven't though any of this through, they're just looking at numbers on a balance sheet. I still think that the civil service needs to be cut down to a better size.
To be honest I think we're all wasting our time debating left vs right issues anyway, they're all just puppets to the super rich and the corporations.
I find it difficult to disagree with any of this really. The public sector does need to be made more efficient, I just worry about the way it will/is being done. As ever with the tories, they are more than happy to look after their own first and to hell with the ordinary working person. Hey ho, we'll see how it all turns out in a year or so I guess.