What Cameron did next...

A month goes fast doesn't it? Next weekend will mark the first month since the elections and in two weeks the coalition government will have been in power for a month also.

So what did David Cameron & co do next?

The most evident action would be last week's £6billion 'emergency spending cuts'. A very big step; whether or not it is in the right direction, we have yet to find out.

As a young adult who had little knowledge of politics when Tony Blair brought Labour into power, and the promise 'New Labour' brought with it, only now do I understand the consequences of the promised land Labour delivered to us for a period before it all started to fall apart. Only now do I realise the truth in my statement at various meetings and conferences that, 'whatever choices we make now will determine the society the future generations develop and grow in."

In fact, at time of writing, David Cameron delivered his first major speech as Prime Minister and in not so many words uttered the very same words I just wrote. He was quoted as saying, "The decisions we make now will live with us for decades to come. For many years we have been heading in the wrong direction."

There you have it, for so long, I had been talking about the repercussions of future generations without realising the effects my own generation would be feeling.

Barack Obama, in his book, "The Audacity of Hope" puts is like this, 'What is striking is the gap between the magnitude of our ideals and the smallness of our politics'. I use this quote because it reflects the apparent attitudes shown by the previous government in its dealings, yes, it provided us with the land of plenty; benefits, asylum to millions of immigrants, free health care and numerous avenues for educational support. This was all great, but the downside has left us with a £156billion deficit.

The lesson: Small politics cannot govern big ideals.

As a result 10,000 young people will lose their university places this year, millions are out of jobs and an estimated 300,000 more who work in the public sector are bound to lose their jobs.

The fall out for young people between the ages of 16-24 is not yet clear. There has been cross-fire between Labour and Lib-Cons with former Chancellor Alastair Darling claiming that, "it is clear these cuts will seriously affect support for business, mean fewer jobs for young people and hit student places for this September," whereas the current Chancellor George Osborne stated that he was creating 150,000 apprenticeship places plus giving support to FE colleges.

This is all without the added implications of the Child Trust Fund being axed, £320million has been wiped off the Fund meaning lower-income families will suffer worse, payments at birth for the children of lower-income families will be reduced from £500 to £100.

There are  a lot of theories that Conservative values work better for the better off than they do for the working class, many of these observations are based on the Margaret Thatcher and John Major eras, but one thing is clear, on face value, David Cameron seems to be a man who is willing to do whatever it takes to rectify the problems we face no matter how unpopular the decisions.

Quite frankly, that is the kind of leader that we need, an uncompromising leader, leads his army to victory, but if it is at the expense of the future generations, the battle will have been fought in vain.

Here is a scenario: There could be threats to local youth clubs and their funding, to young people who intend to enter further education and could find themselves in a situation where their place is cancelled and are also unable to find work meaning they are at reduced to finding other, possibly illegal, means of making money. More voluntary places open up but lead to nothing causing great disillusionment among young people. What will those young people feel about society and themselves? How will they react to such measures of restriction on their naturally curious minds? How productive will they be to society in years to come with limited opportunities? Think about this.

So the smoke needs to clear before we really see the effects. But wait just a minute, it has been said that these cuts are "emergency cuts" with even bigger culls on the way next year, as a country that has had everything for the last 13 years, for the first time, my generation we will have to learn to do without, such is the price we must pay for irresponsible self-indulgence of those before us.

Welcome to the 'Age of Austerity' as Nick Clegg has called it.