As more detail and explanation is trickling out it seems to me that people are clinging onto the past but what is being proposed, whilst in the short term will cause many a measure of grief, once it has bedded in it will become the norm for us to see things in a different way.
I expect when the wheel was invented many thought it would bring the world to an end but in reality it simply meant they had to change the way they behaved and eventually it became the accepted way of things.
I'm not defending Osborne ~ just trying to be practical.
Mother always said "That which cannot be cured must be endured" and that seems to apply to all this.
ALSO Let's not forget that all these changes are to take place over a four to five year period. It won't all happen at once. The trick will be to prepare to adapt where and when necessary. Not to worry about things until they happen which, by the time they do come to pass, we will have grown used to and much will go on as before.
(Well this is The Commons and I am supposed to be serious here)
