It comes as absolutely no surprise to anyone that the government is going to make the poor pay for the mistakes of the rich – the government, after all, is under the direct influence of the multi £billion lobby groups who act on behalf of corporations.

Likewise, it comes as no surprise that the media focus on all the wrong issues – like cuts to the police (if you live in a poor area you learn very quickly that there’s very little point in phoning the police) – the media not only work in the interest of corporations (through advertising), but are themselves a corporate entity.

If the media were as ‘free’ as it claims we would find much more of this…

About the cuts…
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

When the world’s credit markets have no more money to lend the governments, because good money has been poured after bad, and soaking the taxpayers to the fourth generation wears thin, because nobody is quite sure that they will be any more able to pay than the current generation is, and we weep, and wail, and gnash our teeth for our friends who will be made jobless, like the populations they once had the job of helping, when all of this has come to pass, you must pause and answer one short question.

Who’s money were we borrowing all this time, anyway?

We needed to borrow the money because we were not making enough money to support our current levels of government spending. That war did not just fight itself. The banks, oh yes, they lent and lent and lent and lent, and in the good times it was all private profit, and in the bad times, the spineless governments bought the debt and asked future generations to pay it because it was the only way to keep the game running, to keep the illusion that we are the rich, and the poor are far away, and other, in far off places, in countries with hard-to-spell names, far from us and ours and our islands of might and money.

But the truth is we live in one world. We had no money because we were no longer colonial kings. If you think this tightening of belts is intense and difficult,

imagine if we had to live within our environmental means, not just our financial ones.

We have only just begun to see the start of limitation.

Our uncontrolled excesses are killing other people, and the planet. If this is how much reducing our financial deficit hurts, imagine how bad eliminating our environmental deficit is going to be.

It’s not an option. Just get ready to do it with grace, and without whining too much. I’m sorry.

From the very excellent Vinay Gupta. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/

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The above comment talks about 'we' quite a lot. I would find it useful to know who 'we' is.

Seems to me, from the pics and the reports that the feeder march had some "real people" on it at least.

The gathering outside the Town Hall and the list of speakers was a bit of a joke, quite frankly.

For instance,WHEN has that c*nt Harry Harpem....ever spoke publicly before OUTSIDE of the Town Hall? I mean, ever?

Where...as some poster pointed out.....were the "others"....the BNP candidates? the aspiring tory councillors and mps?, the lib dem councillors, the afro-caribbean community, the palestinian community? the pakistani community? the chino-japanese community? the chilean/mexican/venezuelan, etc community?the muslim community?...and so on and on....(presumably "The cuts WON'T affect them?..or perhaps they don't care?...or perhaps?) and so on and on and on and on....

Might as well make a "pop song"...might be just as well.

"Been a long time since I rock n rolled"