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Rally against debt round up

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Just a quick round up of further posts I’ve come across regarding the rally against debt, in particular order and without rhyme or reason. Angry Exile over on Orphans of Liberty has a round up of where it’s being largely ignored by the main stream media and lists the ways to get out of the debt. Brian Micklethwait has a lovely collection of photo’s of the various signs at the rally (hat tip Samizdata). There’s a guest post over at Old Holborns wondering when wanting private enterprise and individual responsibility become a radical view point in this country. +10

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 →