Seized on by Ed Miliband in an impressively feisty response, this is the potentially fatal weakness not only in Osborne's plans but in the government's entire strategy: what if the severe austerity programme aimed at wiping out the deficit by 2015 hollows out the British economy in the process?
Ireland's economy first contracted in 2006, two years before Greece, and has had more quarters of negative growth than Greece, but the severe austerity programme in store for Athens suggests it will be some time before Greece recovers.
However, it took George Papandreou less than a year to lose the confidence of the Greek people due to his severe austerity programme as well as the undertaking of a €110 billion bailout loan from the European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Treatment by the physician team followed protocols for standard trauma therapy as determined by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Early Management of Severe Trauma programme.
A key example is the UNICEF Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition Programme Guide, which provides guidance on programme assessment, design, planning and implementation.
It was better than the City had expected, helped by £68m in savings in a severe cost-cutting programme last year.
Though not as severe as the programme pursued by the coalition, that required a very painful £44bn of cuts by 2014-15.
Whether Sutcliffe could be rehabilitated is a vexed question: besides there being no real way to measure his rehabilitation, this conversation coincides with a report on the dangerous and severe personality disorder programme (operating since 1999 in four institutions, among them Broadmoor), summarised on Channel 4 last month.
This study formed part of a large severe anaemia research programme conducted in southern Malawi at Queen Elizabeth Central hospital in Blantyre (urban site) and Chikwawa District hospital (rural site).
