Friday 20 February 2015

Claim back our cash: Reclaim our Services! - Coalition to be invoiced tomorrow by Brent campaigners

Brent Fightback will be presenting an Invoice to local represenatives of the Coalition partners tomorrow for all the money that has been taken away from Brent residents through the cuts in local government funding.  Fightback encourages local people, suffering from the cuts, to join them for just a few minutes at Willesden Green (2pm) or Preston Road (3pm) or both.


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

So - do you accept that these are Tory / Lib Dem cuts or not?

Martin Francis said...

I accept that the cuts in local government are a result of the Coalition cutting funding to local government. I also accept that local government is acting as an agent of the Coalition in pushing those cuts through rather than mounting a massive campaign of resistance. I accept that this is a failure of the wider movement. Unfortunately I also accept that an incoming Labour government is unlikely to change the situation.

Anonymous said...

If only it was all that simple.

Anonymous said...

‘Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck! Liam.’
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Anonymous said...

"No money" - except when they want to find £130 billion to replace Trident or £43 billion to build HS2...

Anonymous said...

It's a funny time to stage a protest. Do you really expect to find anyone in these offices on a Saturday less than three months from the election? Surely they'll all be out the on the streets. Or is this all really just a photo opportunity?

Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group said...

Hi, Martin

You note that an incoming Labour Government is unlkely to change the situation.
 
Perhaps the Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate for Brent North is relying on a sort of parity of electoral credibility with Labour and also responding to the invoicing of his party colleague Sarah Teather MP (Brent Central) who is standing down at the forthcoming General Election.
link

Unknown said...

They are tripartite cuts from the varying shades of Tory. Barry Gardiner joined the Tories in January and voted for Osborne's spending cuts. Link to vote here
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2015-01-13&number=129&mpn=Barry_Gardiner&mpc=Brent_North&house=commons

Scott Bartle
@mapesburygreen

Alison Hopkins said...

What do you mean by invoicing, please?

Anonymous said...

When they say there is No Money it is a matter of priorities.

Do we continue allocating money to a failed banking system or do we allocate money to the real economy ?

So far the real economy is forgotten in preference to bailing out those who are already wealthy and should have lost their wealth if the state had not bailed out the banking system.

The wealthy are an ungrateful bunch!

Anonymous said...

Yeah a protest on a Saturday afternoon - that's just weird!