Critics of the idea have claimed it is a cover for the coalition's spending cuts agenda, by transferring responsibility from the state to unprepared members of the public. (politics.co.uk)
All this does is make it harder for us to win a real Conservative majority - so as to implement a real long term tax cutting agenda, without the constraints of the Coalition. (conservativehome.blogs.com)
Such was the overwhelming prominence of the spending cuts agenda, where unity was genuine, that the sense of a united government remained powerful for a full year. (politics.co.uk)