Small state Thatcherism is driving the cuts agenda‏

Seumas Milne in today’s Guardian brilliantly exposes the ideological imperatives driving the cuts public expenditure cuts agenda of the Con Dem Government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/16/lib-cons-excuse-shrink-state

“What's become clearer is that for the Lib-Con leaders and their strongest supporters, the deficit is an ideal excuse to do something they were determined to do in any case: shrink the state. This week Spectator editor Fraser Nelson complained that better borrowing figures risked undermining the case for cuts, which should be pushed through "come what may". What is driving the Tory thirst for cuts above all is classic small-state Thatcherism sailing under a phoney flag of necessity.”