David Cameron is today making a speech that will say the cuts the Government are to make will be painful and deep, and may even “change our way of life” – that last bit is a bit scary to say the least.

Meanwhile at the weekend, Nick Clegg for the Lib Dems confirmed they would be deep and painful but they would be handled differently than the vicious slicing of budgets that  Thatchers Tory Government undertook in the 80′s - irrespective of the damage inflicted on precious local services. Of course we’ll have to wait and see – all will become clear at the budget on June 22nd.

What I find particularly galling however is Labour’s current bleating about cuts. There is one big big ginormous fact looming over us all at present and that is the £1.6 billion hole in our budget – that is, put simply, we are spending £1.6 billion more than we are receiving as a country.

Labour knew this, Labour were happy to go through a general election also pledging massive cuts (albeit not immediately), now they are screaming. And they are gearing up to attack the Coalition over cuts – many of which they would have also faced making themselves. It is disgraceful and is certainly not new politics – what ever that actually is. it is certainly old politics.

What is clear to me and was made clear to me during the General Election was that a) the people of this country know we are in a crisis and  b) They would like politicians to work together to get us out of the crisis.

But in the end analysis its a case of return to year 1 for Labour. They want to ignore the fact that after 13 years of New Labour we have an illegal invasion of Iraq and a £1.6 billion public accounts black hole as their legacy to the British people.

In the coming months when Labour try to accuse the Coalition of making harsh cuts to public services, we must remind the British people of how we got where we are today.

We must say how the misery and hardship was the product of an irresponsible Labour Government obsessed with spin and spend. How the Lib Dem /Conservative Coalition are the agents of change that are trying to clean up British politics and put public finances back in order.