After reading this morning’s papers it would be easy to think that we stand on the verge of an apocalyptic battle between the new government and our unions.

Papers on all sides are subtly (and in some cases less subtly) trying to scare us into voting their way, by
suggesting that if we do not, out proud nation could go the way of Greece, which seems to be descending into anarchy.

But the violence which has occurred in Greece should not scare us from doing, as a nation, what we must to restore order to our economy.

We cannot let ourselves be threatened by those who would rather turn a blind eye to reality and who do not see that we simply cannot sustain unbridled public spending.

The cuts will hurt, but they are necessary. And where people like Mr Crow would like to blame big business for all the ills of the country, it is in fact Mr Brown who must take much of the blame.

He presided over years of growth, but fuelled it with unsustainable borrowing and has now left the country financially broken. The banking crisis was bad, but it did not cause the debt which now stands at nearly as trillion.