Happy new year to one and all!

The last day of what has been a momentous year. The political landscape of Britain has changed, I for one got involved in the fray and I met quite a lot of good friends along the way. To all of you and you don’t need naming, I heartily thank you and I love you all. Today, in his New Year message, David Cameron attempts to rebut the charge that the government’s spending cuts are ideologically driven, stating that:

I didn’t come into politics to make cuts. Neither did Nick Clegg. But in the end politics is about national interest, not personal political agendas. We’re tackling the deficit because we have to – not out of some ideological zeal. This is a government led by people with a practical desire to sort out this country’s problems, not by ideology.

As one of my twitter friends stated, he should be on the new years honours list for acting. What a load of rubbish. For instance, someone wrtiing on the New Statesman site states that the cuts inflicted will be permanent, citing an occassion when Cameron was asked by a Fire Brigade worker last summer if funding would be restored once the deficit has been addressed, Cameron replied:

The direct answer to your question, should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later, [is] I think we should be trying to avoid that approach.

The article uses this to say that “the Prime Minister’s insistence that we should try to “avoid that approach” reveals an ideological attachment to the small state and to low levels of public spending. The result will be permanently shrunken public services.” For many who will be blighted by job losses, losses in benefit and other services such as EMA, this new year will seem very bleak and make no mistake, these cuts that ‘are done at a peace of ideological zeal’ will affect all of us. For all of us, the deceipt of Clegg and cameron will not be a memory we can put in a box labeled last year.  In Ed’s message yesterday, he gave an indication that there is hope, another way. We all need to, and quickly in my eyes, chart a course of what we oppose (specifics) and how we will go about opposing. We need to produce a new years revolution (I coined that) in how we think and our approaches, to give hope to those under threat. Come on Ed, your speeches are gold, but we also need action! Lets bring a message of hope and action in these dark days ahead, and make sure we can bring some happiness into this new year!

Janus

Janus guards the gateway,

Two faced, fork tongued,

Lies disguising the truth,

He stands guarding the doorway to a darker future,

Future where the light of hope extinguished,

Aspiration robbed, too high was its price,

We pass through with hope in our hearts,

As there is another path, another way,

He knows it, the dark night will be followed by the day,

We will oppose him, be the light in the drakness,

Love for our common brothers will keep us warm,

We march, you forget Janus, two faced one,

The doors are open to let in the new year,

We march for a fairer way, without fear!

Clegg – the tory enforcer!

Cleggster has once again his blind slavish devotion to his new partners, dering any oppsoition to the spending review as nonsense. Our ‘dear’ Deputy Prime Minister has launched a direct attack on the Institute for Fiscal Studies after it branded the government’s Spending Review “unfair”, stating that poorer families with children will be the “biggest losers” of the cuts.

Clegg told the Guardian newspaper that the IFS’s definition of fairness was “complete nonsense” adding that it only took account of tax and welfare and ignored factors like access to public services and social mobility.

The IFS think tank argues that the Spending Review is “more regressive than progressive” explaining that the review, “excluding the wealthiest 2% of the population, who the IFS assesses will be the hardest hit, it says the poorest 10% of the population will, on average, lose about 5.5% of their net income compared with roughly 4.5% for the top 10%.”

So now, Clegg has publically associated himself with an unfair and regressive set of cuts that will devastate the country with masses of unemployed and bereft of hope. He derides the opposition of experts in financial matters, and now has been publically seen as not just passive, but actively defending this regressive review. Those 500000 public sector workers will not forget Clegg, all those who will suffer will not forget your complicity! One day you will be held to account for your role in this bloodbath!

Blind

Blind,

Your love has made you blind,

Blind devotion to your lover,

Slavish devotion, you serve your master well,

You dismiss the warnings,

Signs of danger on this road,

Kill your speed, yet you accelerate.

You have become intertwined with this,

Not just the face of silent acquiencense,

You speak out in favour of this bloodbath,

Complicit, you fingerprints are all over the axe,

Complicit, you are as guilty as your master!

Slave, how you serve your master with glee!

Clegg’s hollow assurance!

In a speech this morning, the Deputy Prime Minister seeked to calm “public anxiety” over the spending cuts. He stated that  he understood “people’s anxieties” about October’s spending review, likely to see departmental budgets cut by 25%, but a “Sword of Damocles” would not fall overnight and cuts would be spread out until 2015.

When asked about worries that the cuts could tip the economy back into recession, he said he always believed the recovery would be “choppy and uneven” but the risk of not dealing with the deficit was even greater. So in this staement he seems to disregard the human cost of these cuts, the loss of many jobs in the public sector, with reserch suggesting that ares such as the North East and my native North west being areas that will be hit the hardest.

My friend on twitter, @blissedoutjo stated that “Clegg’s aims at reassurance are totally hollow to those losing livelihoods”, to which I agree wholeheartedly.

Cuts of between 25% and 40% in my view are too much. Something that I always  cite but people always forget is that after WW2, when Britain was trying to rebuild a bomb damaged nation, we owed massive war debts that were only recently paid off. However in 1948, we managed to create the NHS. So why now, is cutting spending to pay back a defcit now an issue? The only suggestion I can think of is ideological, they wish to decimate the public sector in an attempt to fill an ideological urge to make the state smaller and the Lib-Dems, if you can even call them that anymore are used as the fig leaf. We must expose this fact and fight against it, we know that pressure and protest and the numbers we have are the greatest weapons we have to make them reconsider, like in the case of the petition against the axeing of the NHS direct.

He said he was “under no illusion” about the political risks that the Conservatives and the Lib Dems faced in what he said was “an unavoidable task” of re-adjusting public spending- does he know that abandoning pledges such as opposing the VAT pledge just to seize power is a risk that has alienated and betrayed many Lib Dem voters and may prove to be a kiss of death to his party?

Soften the blow

You try to soften the blow,

“It won’t hurt” you say, yet you provide no anaesthetic,

Your platitudes in a soft voice,

Yet the blade will cut deep, cause pain, draw blood.

 

How can we trust you,

You who betray your voters for position,

Power your 30 pieces of silver,

You abandon us to the scrapheap,

You are the figleaf covering the immorality of these cuts.

False messiah, how we trust a thrall in all but name?