So Gordon Brown acknowledges that people feel ‘real pain’ due to the recession. Bit like someone kicking you in the shins and then exclaims they feel your pain!
Oh, and to add further misery and further collective kicks in the shins for the working class, Alistair Darling, is expected to announce, pre-Budget, £15bn of spending cuts over the next few years.
Ordinary working class people are going to pay for the excesses of the bosses.
But never fear, Brown explains the method to his financial madness.
“In this new competitive world we have got to do everything in our power to enable businesses to be internationally competitive. No policy can remain exactly as it was five or 10 years ago. Where there are difficulties there are opportunities. We have got to invest out of this downturn.”
Competitive of course means cuts in living standards right across the world. Working class people to be set against each other whichever region of the world they live in. This is not what we want or what we need.
So get to this on Wednesday organised by activists in the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) – a day of action regarding Budget Day – 22nd April.
11.30am: Line the route on Whitehall where the Chancellor will go from No. 11 Downing Street to address Parliament
5pm: Protest outside the Treasury
7.30pm: We will hold a Question Time event at a venue soon to be confirmed which will be chaired by John McDonnell MP and be addressed by a range of experts, activists and high-profile figures who will answer your questions as to how we got into this mess.
I can’t get to the morning but am hoping to attend the evening protests and Question Time…
See you there comrades!
Vote labour get a Tory.