Coalition needed to defeat the coalition

To borrow a quote from Franklin D Roosevelt, the US President who took the USA into World War 2 on 8th December 1941, 11th May 2010 is a date which will live in infamy within Great Britain. This was the day that the Liberal Democrats handed the keys of 10 Downing Street to Margaret Thatcher's bastard son David Cameron. We then witnessed, later that day, the love-in between Cameron and Nick Clegg in the garden of No 10.

Before going any further let's remind ourselves of one simple fact - THIS GOVERNMENT HAS NO MANDATE. Nobody won the 2010 election, although there can be no doubt that Labour did lose the election - and they have nobody but themselves to blame for getting a well deserved kick up the derriere from the electorate.

When he was first elected as leader of the Tory scum, Cameron tried to portray himself as a "caring", "compassionate", "green" leader of the Tories and Theresa May went on the record as saying they were "no longer the nasty party". It didn't take long for the mask to slip. Even before the 2010 election the Tories had plans to make the recession deeper and longer than it would have otherwise lasted. Indeed Greg Barker MP (my own MP) and, at the time Shadow Climate Change Minister (he was given a junior post in the government after the election) was recorded as saying that they would make cuts and attack services that Thatcher could only dream of doing. 

The Tory Party did manage to get the largest number of seats in the election, but not enough to be able to form a minority government, so they went cap in hand to the Liberal Democrats, led by Nick Clegg.

Now, before the election, Clegg had stated his outright opposition to increased tuition fees for university students which prompted a large number of students to vote for the Lib Dems in many marginal seats.

The first thing he did on securing his ministerial perks was to throw this so-called principle into the dustbin.

It wasn't just his principles and the Lib-Dem manifesto he threw into the dustbin when he entered a Faustian pact with Cameron. He also threw away any credibility the Lib Dems or he ever had.

Ever since then this government has lurched from one disaster to another. There have been sleaze scandals including David Laws stealing public funds (funny how this government has been boasting of how tough they are on those who steal public funds when talking of those who do a bit of work on the side to enable them to put bread on the table and yet welcome back someone who stole thousands), numerous U-turns, economic disasters and of course the links between the Tories and the phone-hacking Murdoch press.

This government is weak. It is probably the weakest government for several years. However, it is unlikely to fall because turkeys don't vote for Christmas. The Lib-Dems are too scared to bring it down because they know almost all of them will receive their P45 from the electorate at the next election. So, as a result, they stumble on from one disaster to the next, with the Lib-Dems looking more like Tories every day. There isn't a cigarette paper between Cameon, Clegg, Osborne and Alexander. 

Cameron famously said "We are all in it together". They are certainly all in the shit together, but the millionaires in the cabinet are not sharing the economic pain. They are still sitting pretty with their mansions, their fat salaries, their ministerial perks and, of course, their platinum pensions whilst the rest of us are thrown onto the dole, face working until we drop, when we are sick face being forced to work and then those who have been able to save see the value of what they have saved reduced to nothing.

The coalition have created an underclass. They have attacked public services, they have forced those without jobs into "workfare" where they are effectively slaves, they encourage the abuse given to the disabled in the streets, they have increased VAT which hits the poorest the hardest while at the same time benefiting themselves from the 5p tax cut for millionaires. The coalition has marginalised much of society.

What the coalition has done is created the seeds of its own downfall. They are currently trailing badly in the polls but that is no guarantee they will be removed come the next election. However, there is hope on the horizon.

What is needed is for the disenfranchised in society to work together. This is a weak government. They talk tough but can be beaten. If those who have been trampled down by the scum in power at the moment work together this government can be brought down.

The starting point is the marches on October 20th in London and in Scotland. We need as many people as possible on the streets on that day to send a message to Downing Street.

Following that we need a general strike. 

We also need withdrawal of all co-operation with the government in every form.

A one-off token strike isn't enough. We need a sustained campaign of action and we need that backed up by continued action on the streets. 

Let's make life really unpleasant for the coalition. Every time a minister goes ANYWHERE have him hounded and harassed. Let's have continual demonstrations.

We can win, but it will take a coalition of the disenfranchised to defeat the coalition of the millionaires.