I'm not quite a frothing berserker but I am getting rather cross with our government messing with the good stuff.

[KateMiddIeton]

Just off the top of my head:

• Student fees
• Public sector workers terms and conditions (otherwise known as moving the goal posts after the match has started)
• Women (Report on Fawcett legal challenge result here)
• Sure Start
• NHS
• Erosion of employment rights
• Removal of EMA
• Removal of universal child benefit
• Unfair changes to DLA
• Unfair changes to ESA assessment

I am getting more and more fed up that these decisions are being made to take away some of the things we should be most proud of and that took years to be achieved.

This thread is a safe haven for some ranting as I know some of us are feeling sick and tired of it all.

A feminist perspective here womenagainstthecuts.org/

The biggest victory this gov has achieved has been the propaganda war- with the help of the tabloid press.
A tiny group of unregulated and unaccountable bankers have shafted the world yet the general public in their masses have turned their anger on benefits claimants, immigrants and single parents.
Billions have been spent on interfering in the affairs of other countries and dropping bombs on them while vital services and access to justice for our own citizens are being cut beyond recognition. Not a squeak in the press about that glaring anomaly. Not much of a squeak from the public either.
It's all over bar the shouting. Fuck the tories and the Daily Mail. Fuck every last person who voted for them.

38Degrees were called a bunch of zombies by Health Minister Simon Burns the other day - because they'd written to their MPs about NHS cuts. They'd expressed opinions to their elected representatives. How very dare they?

Hully is right (about everything). We should be angry. And the Big Society - what a pile of bollocks. What I'm already coming up against (am a Chair of Governors) is more and more and more responsibility being placed on people who don't necessarily have the right training, or enough time to do justice to the responsibilities they're being given and it's scary.

So many issues driving me nuts. We're all in this together? Arse.

I'm signing whatever I can.
In the meantime I am investigating the possibility of having horse shit delivered to Number 10.

dear yes, oh yes

< hangs onto dear's knees >

Hello lovely knotty

can we drop Dave into it from a great height? with gideon?

Yes I agree dear I avoided mentioning that in the OP lest it inflame some Tory frothers and I will not have this thread derailed.

This is our sanctuary. For those who have HAD ENOUGH.

Can I add PFI to the list?

And rant a bit about academies and how they undermine everything that can be good about a country's educational system:

Teachers will be unable to stand up for their employment rights and conditions a they will vary so much from school to school that unions will be totally powerless to protect them. Individual schools can do literally what the hell they want and only have to answer to Gove. So, so short-termist. National curriculum is dead and schools will go back in time to the 1500s. There will be no continuity or system, no support for SEN, behaviour problems, truancy, gifted students, sport or music as academies choose where to spend their dough rather than their budgets being prioritised by local government. Everyone loses.

Right, we seriously need to convert frothing into meaningful action.

We can sign things, and what else?

Katie, you can be in charge

We also need this in AIBU with a link to this so more people come and sign.

We need all the ones from Bibs' thread t'other day.

Hully, I'd prefer to dump it on em, the bastards. They should recognise it: they certainly produce enough themselves.

Gids...I froth just at the bleeding thought of him. I have his pic up on my wall just to rant at. I may have defaced it somewhat

Can I be in charge from Thursday please? I have to finish writing a paper about how we treat women in work so shoddily they don't come back after maternity leave. And I have flu.

But from Thursday I am all yours.

Hully you can be in charge of generally rallying ready for Thursday.

Oh it makes me so crazy, thankyou so much for that link to women against cuts the statistic about the deficit and unpaid taxes is particularly galling. How many people have totally swallowed the idea that we must pay off our debt.

I have issued a call in AIBU.

In my case, Hully, what I do is distribute Labour leaflets and go to Labour events where I hear angry people froth.

But that in itself is soul-destroying - the reality is that most people don't see Ed Miliband as a viable PM, and why should they? There's so little that's proactive in the Labour Party these days - they react to stuff with varying degrees of conviction and coherancy, but that's the extent of it. Tis making me very glum indeed.

No, Katie. That's the sort of Oh-I-must-blow-my-nose attitude that is letting the fuckers get away wiith it.

I'd like to add the 'review' of health and safety legislation. It's based on daily mail-esque scare stories about conkers etc, but what it will end up doing is making workplaces unsafe. Places like joineries, building sites, industrial warehouses, kitchens. All feeling the pinch and will be only too happy to cut corners as permitted by deregulation. Cue nasty, career ending workplace accidents.

Duly signed and frothing.

How about a Fawcett society don't turn back time tea party? Location: Downing Street. www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1247

Hully, I am writing it for one of the good guys! I don't want to be an Ed Milliband. If I'm going to do it it has to be done properly. Not with a stuffy nose.

Signing in. I'm a wishy washy lib dem type thing generally but I am so cross about the half arsed inept mismanagement bollocks the govt is doing.

We have a deficit - okay. Lets not spend millions doing a revamp of the health service which will cost a lot, not save any money, not improve results and mean that we pay large redundancy payments to PCT staff shortly before they're rehired by the GPs as they're the only people who know how to run the bloody thing.

ESA: Makes me so angry. I don't object to the principle of the checks but they are rubbish and the benefits should remain until after an appeal is refused.

The Localism Act. Just bollocks. Big fat furry Eric Pickles ones.

There is so much money being spent on things which COST MORE. IT IS STUPID AND IGNORANT.

Right I propose two days of rallying, general soothing of sweated brows and wiping of froth and making of tea while we decide what to do. Then on Thursday we begin The Plan.

Wasn't there a big scandal in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings because of an email sent out by a woman saying, basically, "yay, now we can slip through some stuff the public will hate but won't notice?" That's quite similar to what a lot of you are saying isn't it?

Worringly enough, though, I think it is people like me that enable the government to get away with it - so busy concentrating on their own little lives that they just expect the goverment to get on and do what is right, and only notice when it is shoved RIGHT in our faces - like when I tried to find a job after uni and struggled. I do wonder how it got to the point where people are so trusting/uninterested that entire changes in legislation can be passed without people blinking an eye. (I am lumping myself in with 'people' here too.)

The Sure Start thing bothered me - I come from a very deprived area and my mother still lives there now, working as a nursery nurse. She used to tel lme that they were beginning to see positive effects of the SS scheme and now it is over

Go peeps on this thread!

Ok Katie, we harvest and gather, Thurs we Plan.

yes there was Christmas. Stupid woman Jo somebody.