These cuts are a painful last resort and I'm deeply mindful of their impact. They're going to affect many lives, families and communities, and we'll do everything we reasonably can to ease the burdens.

These cuts are a painful last resort and I'm deeply mindful of their impact.

Ration cuts are a last resort, but we simply have no alternative.

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.

This should have a significant impact on unnecessary porpoise and dolphin deaths,