The Conservative Party were relying on there being a poor turn-out for the TUC Anti-Cuts protest in Manchester today. Unfortunately for the Tories, 35,000 people showed-up, very noisy and very angry, placing the Anti-Cuts agenda firmly back at the centre of the headlines. Even worse, from the Tory point-of-view, no-one was arrested, meaning media coverage for once had to concentrate on the actual issues.

Conservative chairman David Cameron's response was to deploy "Plan B" and play the Tory trump card - by announcing an immediate return to Margaret Thatcher's most divisive, effective and populist strategy. The Tories are going to try to buy the compliance of working-class people, by selling-off more cut-price Council Housing, in my opinion totally vindicating the analysis put forward in this post (if you've not seen this post already, please it read carefully, click on the link)...

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/09/485338.html

Any opportunity to buy property at knock-down prices is an offer few working-class people can afford to refuse, even though selling Council Houses back to the people whose taxes paid for them is effectively Conservative theft from the public purse. As discussed in the earlier post, this policy was designed to encourage Council tenants to self-identify as middle-class, and in doing so to re-structure the political landscape and out-manouvre the oppositional tactics that the Tories knew they could rely on the traditionalist left to try and employ against them.