Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne insists that his country’s fiscal trajectory is dangerously unsustainable, and he has proposed draconian cuts. Others strongly disagree, noting the continued low level of interest rates, and that even under the previous government’s plan, net borrowing costs were already scheduled to fall by nearly two-thirds between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
不过，毕竟还有一些介乎两者之间的情况，比如英国。英国财政大臣乔治·奥斯本坚持认为该国的财政状况不可持续，非常危险，因而主张严厉地削减赤字。其他人则强烈反对，因为他们注意到利率水平持续保持低位，市场预期净借贷成本在2010、2011年到2014、2015年间将会下降二分之三，比前届政府所希望的还要低。