Now the damage of last Tuesdays budget and the further deeper cuts into the public finances is being calculated.
600,000 public sector jobs lost! A pay freeze and pension levy on the rest. All at a place of work, near you, soon.
Half a million private sector jobs will be lost.
35,000 police jobs to go.
Thousands of prison places to be closed.
School breakfasts cancelled for 500,000 of the poorest primary school children. And free school meals to be attacked and canteens probably to be closed across all of education.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg! But still, the band plays on as billionaires and bankers waltz on untouched and untrammelled by the financial chaos that they are wholly and soley responsible for. They must have gone to right schools and joined the right clubs.