10 Responses to TUC demo against cuts 26 March 2011

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   Professor on December 6, 2010 at 16:13

   where is the serious backing,publicity and promotion from the TUC for this march, organisationally, politically and financially ?

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     Jayne on March 29, 2011 at 15:56

     Professor, Mr Glenn and Ms Maskell, perhaps the attached quotes from the Observer, Sunday 27th March change your viewpoint:

     “Commander Bob Broadhurst, the Scotland Yard officer in charge of policing the protests, said the TUC had done an excellent job in ensuring that the march was “very professional, very well prepared”. ” ….

     “The main group of marchers demonstrated peacefully and walked along the planned route from Embankment to Hyde Park. Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.”

     Organisation was excellent, you just had to look for it, not expect it to be spoonfed to you. You could, however, use a search engine on this thing called the internet and, as it was organised by the TUC, I dunno, perhaps try typing that in? ….

     The “months of delay” was surely in order that people would begin to feel the effects of the cuts and maximise numbers taking part, and to make sure the logistics were in place? In any event, many were snowed in from the end of November through to February, perhaps they considered that too?

     The organisation was excellent, information easy to access and I wish to thank the TUC for an fantastic day!

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   john glenn on December 10, 2010 at 17:10

   TUC – what a joke. the time for action is now (actually a few months ago would have been even better). What do we get? months of delay

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     kaite maskell on February 5, 2011 at 20:50

     I agree completely and was pretty riled when they failed to deliver any action last year. However (thanks in no small part I imagine to the thatcher legacy) they are somewhere between muzzled and toothless.

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   dave on March 23, 2011 at 21:59

   This is about the government in geniral not cuts money means nothing it an illusion,, we want out contry back and out land they have stolen it our birth right…. devidei it up and share it no one owns anything as of march 26th

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   david on March 25, 2011 at 13:50

   TUC will never be any good while the unions are like they are. See http://www.grassrootsleft.org “We are different. We are genuinely on the Left (look at our policies) unlike some of the right wing groups and General Secretary supporters clubs who claim to be. We are wanting to restore democracy in Unite and take back control of our union for the members, to restore power to the rank and file or ‘grass roots’ . Unite is currently run by a small number of highly paid bureaucrats, fighting each other with their tiny careerist cliques which all purport to be the ‘Broad Left’ in the union. “

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   the real working man on March 25, 2011 at 23:38

   sack the public sector bleeding the real working man dry

   no industry, no enterprise, just system pen pushers

   welcome to the UK

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     Jayne on March 28, 2011 at 01:53

     Who empties your bin and for how much per week? Who teaches your kids and for how much per hour? Who tests your piss samples and for how much per dip? Could you take a letter from London to Glasgow for 42p in less than 24 hours?

     Sometimes, and increasingly more often, I can’t help but wish people would think before committing their fingers to the keyboard!

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   Andy on March 26, 2011 at 10:13

   Dear ‘real working man’,

   Do tell that to your nurse the next time you’re in the hospital or your kid’s teacher when they stay late for the school fête or play. And next time you remember using DHL or FedEx is ridiculously more expensive than the normal post, you might want to revisit that. Oh, and when the bank stops giving you a modest interest rate because, well, they can do what they like, you remind yourself how bad the public sector is.

   I don’t know if marching will change anything, but what I do know is that the public sector give us a lot, and at a bargain rate. Get in a car accident the US if you want to see how great the system is over there…

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   Leon on March 28, 2011 at 23:26

   Right on to the last two posts. Brilliant.

   To the argument by ‘real working man’, and others, who just blindly call for cuts and the decimation of the public sector I keep saying this.

   You have had it your way in the UK for 30 years. It is precisely and inevitably why Britain is in the mess we are in. Yet incredibly you just want more of the little regulated free market medicine that already has the bloody patient on his knees.

   Ever since Thatcher every successive Govt has trotted out ‘public good private bad’. To those who laughingly try to portray Blair and Brown as some public sector spendthrifters. I work in the public sector. If they could have done they would have bloody privatised the air we breathe. Contract after corrupt contract gifted to even multinational private sharks. So little in this country now, even in the public sector, is actually owned or run by you and me. Christ, even the Census is now done by an American arms company. The French control a chunk of our energy and trains. Even bloody Icelandic Banks could bring some local authorities to their needs. It goes on.

   Please enlighten me and try to change my mind someone?
   Just name one, just the one will do, privatisation of basic public services that as a) been more efficient b) cheaper to the taxpayer c) a better deal for either it’s customers or the people who work in it or d)was not a pure simple rip off to spoon feed already obscenely rich shareholders. Love to see an answer to that.

   The truth is on it’s head for some people. The public sector, you and me, now feeds the private unnacountable shareholders. Not the other way round. Christ what proof do you want? Cuts to the Public Sector are already causing some private companies to scream. Lucrative contracts drying up. Just like vultures around the pickings of the carcass they themselves stripped of all flesh.
   Instead of oiling the wheels of manufacturing, these days all the private sector have to do is wait for the next ‘kill’ from the state. To think you wonder what is wrong so much you are still blaming the bloody carcass, not the vulture. So just who are the ‘spongers’ then?

   30 years. It has been going on for 30 years. I will keep saying it. The unemployed and sick are now being punished for being just that.

   If you want a private sector work camp, please find some other island.

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