Solving the UK debt problem

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Every weekday morning I watch Sky news and listen to the recent babble about how the new coalition government is going to sort out Britain's deficit issue by hitting people's wallets even harder than ever before. I get quite wound up because although I agree that the country might be in a financial mess, nothing is really explained as to how it got into this situation in the first instance. It can't be blamed on borrowing when many banks and loan companies are not run by the state so cannot see the connection between this and the debt itself. The UK currently invest 64/5 billion per day in the European union, though nothing is discussed as to what purpose this serves and doesn't create more solid working relationships between countries when this has been happening for centuries - even before money exchanged hands. The government also invest a reported, whopping 80 billion a year on nuclear armament, the forces that defend our country and attack others that pose a threat, so how on earth can they blame the ordinary citizen for such a crisis that appears to have arisen out of the government's own mistakes for putting this country into the mess that it is in?. The poorest in society seem to be the target and can't believe that they can think themselves responsible for what trained accountants in parliament have far more power and knowledge of how money is distributed. What are other people's opinions?