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.

non-tories.

we are the we think tories are wankers and need to go coalition.

I am so tired I could barely stand to cook tea tonight, but find I have eneregy left to froth, especially after reading all your good work above .
I hate it! Bloody rich bastards using a recession to kick those who are already down and further their ideological ends. Bloody call-me-Dave (I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick) pretending to be human when he seems to be THatcher reincarnated before she even has time to die. Bastards.
I'm a teacher and many of our pupils are from very deprived areas. Wht's happening makes me sick.
Count me in for action. And I think emailing this thread to our MPs if they are Condem seems a good start to me.

it's beyond party politics now isn't it? it's just non-tory.

the lib dems are beneath even mentioning for me.

my father voted for them all his life despite being a working man who you'd expect to vote labour. he really believed in them

emskaboo you have made the mistake of offering to do something constructive.

We have had a request for a collection of petition links. Could you gather them into a single post please? They are spread throughout the thread.

What do you think?

does anyone remember the labour MP john smith? wish he hadn't died, i had such a good feeling about him. don't know much about him and i was quite young but he left an impression.

Ok I'm here but I have to admit I really don't understand all this politics malarki. What I do know is what is happening us wrong!!!
But seriously what can we do?
All I know is that life seemed to be much better under Labour until all the crap happened with the banking crisis. All I can see is the only way forward is for a general election, but can we actually call it??
Like I said I am totally un-clued up about politics, I'm saying all this as a confused bystander

I slept very poorly last night

I hope I don't have another night like that

Since I am due on the rally in Manchester, in the gale force wind and rain < sigh >

oh no, the strike is just an excuse for a lie-in !!!

i had forgotten that... happy fucking days

Perhaps we should all become fully paid-up members of the Labour Party and reform it from within..........

John Smith was great He was the party's Great Hope before T. Bliar.

This thread has summed up the feelings of grrrrr that I have been feeling lately. Just watching the news and reading the smug comments from various members of the government just make me fume. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks playing different sections of society off against each other is just some huge diversion.

Is there a twitter #tag to use to trend? If it works for Louise Mensch and the DofE...

divide and rule

very, very effective

obvs

how do you do the Twitter thing ?

I am not on twitter

If there's a Twitter hashtag on the go already we should adopt it. Keep the message on trend.

I am thinking everyone with a Lib Dem MP should encourage them to revolt. Break the coalition, break the strangle-hold and stop the cuts.

Too angry and stressed to add anything intelligent .

We should concentrate on increasing our numbers at the moment (we all know why we're here, we just need more of us here).

We should decide on organised positive action (petitions, email campaigns, actively supporting strikers etc and whatever) under a kind of unified banner.

We should aim to generate publicity (hasn't MN always made the news for one reason or another - totally aware that MNHQ won't want to touch a political hot potato, but it IS the place that drew us together, therefore we ARE MNers...) Particlularly sensitive media/political-wise as politicians have courted MN in the past and we are also made up of (mostly) women (Tories wanting to appease us at the moment).

Or am I talking shit?

You sign up via twitter.com and can create your user name. Then you can post pretty much what you like. It is only short messages but if you use a hash tag (a key word prefixed with #) other people can find the topic and it can be tracked as a trend if popular.

You just add a # with the relevant code/word/abbreviation after the message.

For example, NCT use #NCTsale to highlight all their posts about NCT Nearly New Sales (I invented that one I did).

There's a hashtag for tomorrow's action. It's #Nov30 but obviously we need something more permanent.

UK Uncut have #UKuncut

do you have to use your real name ?

oh sorry, I see what you mean

I cried dry little tears when I heard they had a foot in the door. I knew it would not be good. I didn't realise it would be so amateurishly and transparently done though. A sudden announcement today of nearly double public sector jobs to be lost than previously thought. Gosh that must have suprised them when they got those figures. Then they can make announcements like 'it turns out its going to be harder for longer as it happens'. All I can hear is a braying 'sorrreeeeee' like some port got spillt on your shoes.

The fees. For me its the college fees. And the brain drain of the people teaching them. This is generations of talent snuffed. Who wants to train as a nurse or a teacher? Anyone?
1% pay rise freeze (haven't had one for 2 years, unless you count .01% last year) until 2015? I haven't got the energy to find ways to break even every month for that long.

Jesus. I'm not even drunk. That could be rectified...shortly.

I will join in with twitter stuff as well as signing anything. I'm @tinilubes if anyone wants to follow

Pandora you speak sense.

Although I am amazed to find we are all here. Amazed and delighted. Completely unexpected when I started the thread.

Bum the other thread has gone.