Awaiting the deluge (2)

So Cameron's speech is over and we are really not much further on. It's still the softening-up process and probably will be until the budget, though Clegg's message from yesterday was included. Tomorrow's instalment is a "framework" for the budget and spending review process.

All the figures he used (and there were few) could have been worked out (and often were) before the election, so the judgement that the situation is worse than anybody thought is as yet not demonstrated.

Once the budget has specified the sums available it will be up to us - all of us - to contribute to the debate about what should be spent on what, what should not be done at all, etc. He gave no idea of how this might be achieved - some sort of online process I assume - or how to convince people that they have actually been listened to.