REGARDING the letter “Join our people’'s assembly to put forward commonsense politics” by Alan Johnson (March 30).
It’s coming to something when a whole load of different groups have to come together to fight against the ideological cuts that being imposed on us through this ConDem government. We have to ask ourselves: Where is the Labour Party? Shouldn’t Labour be opposing cuts that directly affect a good deal of the people who vote for them?
The answer to this is that the Labour Party is too busy protecting its own jobs like the career politicians that they are.
Labour voters should be able to rely on their party to vote against policies that affect them directly, otherwise why even bother to vote for them?
We also have to ask ourselves why so many Labour MPs supported the government’s “work for nothing” workfare programme, whilst those MPs who opposed it were removed from their positions. For many, this coalition of resistance will come as a breath of fresh air.
It gives people a choice to fight against these cuts and this disgusting government and all of the party support that these cuts are getting from the three main parties. I only hope this movement grows and is able to to end the infestation of Neoliberal ideas that are dominating our political system.
If this doesn’t happen, the three main parties will ensure that rich people and corporations are able intervene in our democratic process whenever it suits them.
It also means the three Neoliberal parties will continue to give away our money raised through taxation in the form of bank bailouts, tax cuts and bankers’ bonuses, while the rest of us work ourselves into the ground to pay for others who feel that because they are rich, they do not need to contribute.
Steve Jones Morris Green
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