COMING SOON TO A GOVERNMENT NEAR YOU – AT 9:56 A.M. ET:  Well, at least there's one leader who'll tell it like it is:

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that Britain’s financial situation was “even worse than we thought” and that the country would have to make savage spending cuts to bring its swelling deficit under control.

Stern and grim-faced in a speech in Milton Keynes, just north of London, Mr. Cameron said, “How we deal with these things will affect our economy, our society — indeed our whole way of life.”

“The decisions we make will affect every single person in our country,” he said. “And the effects of those decisions will stay with us for years, perhaps decades, to come.”

Mr. Cameron said that at more than 11 percent, Britain’s budget deficit was the largest ever faced by the country in peacetime. But he warned that the structural deficit was more worrisome. Britain currently owes a total of more than $1.12 trillion , he said, and in five years will owe nearly double that if nothing is done now.

COMMENT:  Let's see how the British people take this.  The left over there, and over here, would rather lead a country to ruin than see any social program cut. 

Britain's future lies in the balance. 

Of course, there are actually two Britains.  There's the Britain of Winston Churchill, and the Britain of Neville Chamberlain, the Britain of raw guts, and the Britain of the nanny state.  

Cameron is off to a good start, with the blunt, hard truth.  He may put Obama to shame.  Well, that's not much of a standard, is it?

June 7, 2010