Quote Originally Posted by al Roumi View Post
Ugh, sometimes the Org really looks like a seeping pore of reactionary chauvinists.

I went to the rally on saturday, I didn't go on the march. I watched people file into Hyde park for an hour or so, saw a bunch of teenage "anarchists" run off -as I later found out, to watch/partake in the sack of Fortnum and Mason. Marching I saw nurses, teachers, physiotherapists, lecturers as well as the general public sector unionists -and this was only from their banners.

I'm in a strange situation caught between a desire to show support for public services and the patent lack of a political alternative to these cuts. Even the last Tory government used a 1:1 ratio of taxation to cuts to balance the national budget, where are the taxes in Osbourne's equation? Probably at about 1:4... You don't expect the Tories to care about people who can't afford to go private, but that is at least meant to be Labour's bread and butter. The Labour party is failing to stand up and provide an alternative.

As to the "Anarchists", they are children who have no right to carry a flag carried for real causes in history. 200 people were arrested out of up to 400,000 attending the rally, yet these idiots get the headlines -undermining the message of the massively overwhelming majority.

And then the dregs of society on here carp about their own family being comfortable when clearly, if they weren't -or more importantly they could see past their own navel, they might give a solitary crap.
Um, totally unsubstantiated ad hominem?

"We" are not the dregs of society, nor are we (so far as I am aware) chauvanists.

The cupboard is bare, there is no money, we cannot increase spending. You just have to live with it. I work in Higher Education, I'm not exactly thrilled about the fees rises because I start teaching next year and, frankly, I'm worried about the effect the fees will have on the mentality of the students and how they will create unrealistic expectations we just can't meet.

Labour wasted a lot of money on pointless projects and bad ideas, raising the number of people going to university being a case in point. They also threatened to cut bu 20% going into the election, where the Coalition cut by 19% when actually in power.

So.... reactionary my foot. Fiscal responsibility is becoming the new orthodoxy, why it was ever anything else is beyond me.