Category Archives: Cuts

The station that rigged everything

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For reasons that now escape me I’ve just finished watching The street that cut everything – this was an “experiment” where Nick Robinson persuades a street to give up all council services for 6 weeks. The very subtle (no honest it was subtle really – like a brick wall across Brandshatch) sub-text was that councils are terribly good value for money and that cuts can only affect vital services and are therefore evil. That said I was hugely impressed with how well the street actually did, they managed to meet all the “challenges” aunty threw at them and stay on … Continue reading →

The good, the bad and the ugly

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So Saturday was the first (and I do hope not last Rally against debt) turn out was predictably low, despite all the people on Facebook saying they’d attend. Proving that armchair activism is alive and well – which isn’t really news at all. I can’t agree with the people that said it was fantastic, I think claiming that is as deluded as the LibDems saying they’ll make real progress next time or the Yes2Av crowd claiming they didn’t get hammered. The turn out wasn’t good by any stretch of the imagination, and I’ll return to that but first as the … Continue reading →

Missing the point

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Having linked to that little survey (where it reports over 30% of respondents will be attending) I foolishly read some of the comments, and granted the people commenting probably only read the article which claimed that the Rally against debt was a “pro-cuts” demonstration. But still other people tried to put that fallacy straight, but it would seem that for many of our friends over at the Gruniad the idea of being against the debt, but not necessarily in favour of cuts seems to be too subtle a point for them. The hopes for violence and the suggestion that everyone … Continue reading →