Firstly I assume thats a typo on your part because if she said no to the welfare budget increasing there would be no need for cuts elsewhere.
Secondly (and less pedantically) as I've said before if you go back to the general election campaign you will find that BOTH the parties said that cuts would be necessary but neither were willing to say what they would cut. That held true right up to election day, let alone 2 years out.
Finally much as I hate defending politicians (unless I'm getting paid to do it 
) answer me this. You are as far as I am aware (and I say this with the deepest of respect) a one man band in a small niche part of the economy, correct? If I asked you today to give me a clear picture of the predicted state of your business on June 1st 2015 how accurate could you be? What imponderables would you wish to take into account? What basis would you use for predicting income? Expenditure? Growth?
Now imagine a government trying to do the same thing. Whilst having to react to things outside of its control. Like the Euro zone crisis or wars or natural disasters? Why do you expect them to be any accurate than you could be simply because you want a soundbite from a junior opposition minister on a TV programme?
She was objecting to the Govts cuts, suggesting that they would reinstate them. The Govts intention is to reduce the welfare budget, (though I suspect they will fail), so for Labour to reinstate any Govt cuts, would increase the budget from what the Govt get it down to, unless they cut something else.
No, I can't plan exactly what I will be doing with my business in 2 years time, if thats what you are asking me. However, I won't be spending the next 2 years slagging off my competitiors either. I will plan a "framework" of where I want to go, and though events may get in the way of specifics, I won't promise my customers one thing, knowing that I will never be able to deliver it. A good example, prior to the election, one of my major clients was a provider of Home Information Packs. Both the Cons and Libs made it clear that if they won the election, they would scrap HIPs, which they did almost straight away, losing me a lot of business. But instead of moaning about it, I planned for it, was flexible, and adapted my business accordingly.
No one expects a line by line breakdown of what might happen to the Govts accounts, but the people who vote for politicians deserve politicians who will be honest, and stick to the principles.
(And as for Labour saying they would have to cut if they won the last election, only half true, some, like Ed Balls, still think we should be spending more.)
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