Are there stages of grief in public service decommissioning..?

The public don't know what's hit it yet but at best this year we'll have:

1. the hardest debates over the services middle class people use


2. the expectation that universal services won't exist any more 


3. the role of the state solely being around targeting problems


4. an expectation that the third sector will deal with problems, (not the extras the state would never pay for..)