Photo: REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
Given that the Conservatives have always tried to paint themselves as the “law and order” party and biggest friends of the police force, this is more than embarassing – it’s a Tory disaster:
Thousands of off-duty police officers took to the streets in London on Thursday in a rare display of anger against government austerity, joining a protest by public sector workers including immigration officials, healthcare workers and prison officers.
Unions predicted some 400,000 public sector workers would walk out, a smaller protest than in November when Britain saw the biggest strike in years, but a significant show of discontent just after Prime Minister David Cameron’s government took a drubbing at local elections.
The government said only about 150,000 had taken part and dismissed the action as “futile”. Cabinet Office minister Frances Maude said, “public services were mainly unaffected”.
However, the sight of some 30,000 police officers marching through London will be embarrassing for Cameron’s centre-right Conservatives, who pride themselves on being the party of law and order.
Thirty thousand is close to a quarter of all the police officers in England and Wales. Mark my words, Cameron’s headed for a Last Days Of Thatcher scenario – ousted by his own party’s rats to save themselves.
but the ‘party rats’ will survive.
It is worth remembering that the Founding Fathers were all traitors.
may live, but their days are numbered. London will be quite the Olympic venue this year. Even with the virtual police state, I can visualize and hear the chant “The whole world is watching.” What a protest stage.
the Libs break the current Government?
from this – and from Greece, and from Spain, and from France.
Here’s the problem with austerity, and why it won’t work:
Do they really think they are going to tell the whole country – don’t spend any money, sorry we don’t have jobs for you, don’t work, and don’t buy stuff. Somehow, this will make your life better someday in the far-off future.
Do you really think you are going to tell Americans to do that?
What do you think Americans will do?
I don’t know either, but I think it could make Spain and Greece look like a garden party.
The Independent reported Clegg as supporting Cameron’s position that the Leveson Inquiry should handle the Hunt affair (after Leveson clearly signaled that it was a no go), The Lib Dems would have to dump him to do that. I don’t know quite how that works. The Lib Dems seem to like studying more than action. Clegg is seen by some in he party and the broader public as the weasel he is for going with Cameron.
Bringing down Cameron with a new leader might be the hat trick. Miliband is truly unpopular. That won’t change. The Conservatives have a weak bench. The Lib Dems, if they have one, could ‘surge’ with the right leader and an anti austerity platform. Be interesting. It would take a politician in that party with some vision. The field is open for a leader.
The Money Party RSS
We’re really locked down as a public. There’s universal disipleasure with both parties and the leadership figures. But the means of control are so exquisite still that despite public yearning for action, all avenues are blocked. If things let loose, it would be very intense very quickly.
The Money Party RSS
