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"Resisters to the coming cuts are 'Terrorists' says Rotherham Council CEO"

Zoltan K. Thompson | 06.08.2010 12:58 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Anyone who might think the coming cuts are a tad unfair and is considering opposing the cuts is a TERRORIST according to Martin Kimber CEO of Rotherham Council.

On the 15th July this year Martin Kimber the CEO of Rotherham council spoke to a meeting of voluntary sector organisations about the coming ConDem cuts.

 http://varotherham.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2505:martin-kimber-meeting-was-another-great-success&catid=162:vcvn-news&Itemid=367

Labour controlled Rotherham Borough Council will be cutting 30% of its budget over the next 3 years, which means job losses, already the council has shed some 340 jobs over the last 3 months. Kimber also says that democratically elected councillors will have to lose their 'paternalistic' attitude and that any resisters to the cuts are would be 'terrorists'.

So if your planning any demos against these cuts expect to be policed as if you are terrorists as Kimber's remarks clearly show, what the attitude of authority will be to anyone defending their jobs or anyone who might think that it should be the bankers who got us into this state of affairs who should carry the burden and not the poorest in society.

Kimber had attended a Chatham House rules meeting where he was told by Whitehall mandarins what the ConDems were proposing. Clearly again the Voluntary sector and 'Social Enterprise' are being looked to to provide services that local government usually supply, and this shows what the 'Big Society' really represents a further widening in the gulf between the rich and poor and a continuation of Corporate creep into the privatisation of Government in a way Mussolini would be wetting his pants in anticipation over.

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Just been

06.08.2010 14:01

skipping thru the podcast, can't find references to 'terrorists' opposing cuts in there, have I missed something?

pOd


terrorist reference

06.08.2010 14:13

The podcast is a rar download from the link in the article it contains 3 mp3 files.

The Terrorist comment is in the Q&A session in the file named "VAR Q&A,mp3" in answer to the first question.

See also the Groiniads Society Daily blog

The cuts - and public sector "terrorists"

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/06/society-daily?CMP=twt_gu

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Thanks Zoltan

06.08.2010 14:38

must have skipped through it too hastily!

pOd


Similarity with Mein Kampf

03.07.2012 00:34

Just as a foot note, having subsequently read Mein Kampf, on page 16 Hitler says this

"As everywhere and always, as in every struggle, there
were ... three groups:

The fighters, the lukewarm, and the traitors. "

Which bears a striking resemblance to what this chief exec was saying in his answer.

Zoltan K. Thompson