George Osborne and David Laws made their long-awaited announcement on their plans to immediately cut public spending by £6bn.
We already knew that the axe would fall on areas such as Quangos and IT, but the statement today lacked any real detail on which specific projects would suffer.
That there was no specific guarantee to protect concessionary transport was particularly disappointing.
Most worrying of all was the announcement of the cuts to Local Government and that grants to local authorities from Whitehall will no longer be ring-fenced.
What exactly does this mean for the electorate?
David Cameron has repeatedly said that the elderly and the vulnerable will be protected, but with more announcements to come in the Budget and the spending review in the autumn, I fear really savage spending cuts will inevitably follow.
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