The ConDem Boat Rocks

As the ConDem Comprehensive Spending Review looms, it seems that the coalition is beginning to rock as the waters become choppy. Lib Dem energy secretary Chris Huhne now indicates that the £83 billion spending cuts were not "lashed to the mast", according to an interview in the Daily Telegraph. As the Lib Dem support ebbs away, Huhne said the government may have to "tack about" to get to where it wants to if the economic winds change.

Indeed the economic wind has changed, and Ireland is a clear indication of this. As the ConDem coalition follow the same route of tough public spending cuts, it is becoming more clear that Britain will end up on the same disastrous course as Ireland. Pointing towards a double dip recession as thousands lose their jobs and taxes for ordinary people rise.

The ConDem boat is also being rocked by the growing 'Fight The Cuts' groups springing up and the Unions voice is starting to sound the bugle and alert members that the ConDem pirate ship is coming to rob the poor and line the pockets of the rich. For the rich, corporation taxes have been lowered to the lowest in the Western world, while VAT will rise to the highest in living memory - hurting the less well off the most.

Between now and Oct 20th spin doctors from the ConDem camp will be busy trying to minimize the devastating news of massive cuts between 25- 40%. Ramping up talk about the cuts being spread over several years and some cuts being scaled back in a bid to hang on to public support.

Yet a small, but growing army of ordinary people are climbing aboard boats in a bid to fend off the ConDem pirate boat that has come to rob them. The coalition is already weak and should enough people oppose the cuts (like they did with the Poll Tax that ended Thatcher's rule), then the ConDem boat can be sunk before it has has a chance to impose it's all out attack on the working class. Workers should not expect the Labour boat to come and rescue them, for too long this boat has been at the port of big business and failed to represent the working class.

Only a new mass workers party that truly represents the working masses can offer an alternative to the three main parties slash and burn policies, a party that runs the country for the people and not for the minority. In the next election we need to see real Socialists and  independents standing that will stand up for public services.