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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/axing-services-is-dangerous-game.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Ed Balls said ministers are playing a dangerous game with spending cuts" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-axing-services-is-dangerous-game.jpg" alt="Ed Balls said ministers are playing a dangerous game with spending cuts"/></a></p>
<p>Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has accused David Cameron of taking Britain back to the era of &#8220;nasty confrontation&#8221; which marked Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s years as prime minister.</p>
<p>Mr Balls said that the Government is playing a &#8220;dangerous game&#8221; with its programme of spending cuts, mounting what he described as a &#8220;real assault&#8221; on public services.</p>
<p>His comments, in an interview with the BBC Politics Show North West to be broadcast on Sunday, came after Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke warned that Middle England does not yet fully understand what is about to hit them.</p>
<p>Mr Balls cited an open letter to The Times signed by more than 90 senior Liberal Democrat councillors, complaining that the Government is cutting too far, too fast, as evidence of the damage that is being done.</p>
<p>He said that the coalition&#8217;s top leadership &#8211; such as Mr Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg &#8211; are out of touch with the realities of life facing ordinary voters.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think David Cameron is playing a really dangerous game here. People remember the 1980s &#8211; deep cuts, trouble in the streets and Margaret Thatcher goading confrontation, blaming local councils,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;David Cameron is taking us back to those days. I think people up and down the country are saying &#8216;Look, we&#8217;ve moved beyond that, we don&#8217;t want that nasty confrontation&#8217;. I think he is making a really, really unwise choice here. Increasingly I think people are looking at David Cameron and George Osborne and Nick Clegg and saying they are not in touch with the reality of our lives. It&#8217;s dangerous for them.&#8221;</p>
<p>In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Clarke warned that the coalition is going to face &#8220;some political difficulty&#8221; as people begin to grasp just how hard they will be hit.</p>
<p>Mr Clarke, who was chancellor in the last Conservative government, described the current economic situation as &#8220;calamitous&#8221; and warned that there will be no &#8220;quick rebound&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;One reason we&#8217;re going to get some political difficulty is that (while) the public knows we&#8217;ve got to do something about it, I don&#8217;t think Middle England has quite taken on board the scale of the problem,&#8221; he said.</p>
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