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Cuts won’t work T-shirt

"The cuts won’t work, they’ll just make things worse." This sums up precisely the case against the rolling back of the state which is now being executed in an ideological crusade on a Thatcherite scale. The website www.thecutswontwork.co.uk  (“created by a few individuals concerned that the government is making bad choices, and trying to make…

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image"The cuts won’t work, they’ll just make things worse." This sums up precisely the case against the rolling back of the state which is now being executed in an ideological crusade on a Thatcherite scale. The website www.thecutswontwork.co.uk  (“created by a few individuals concerned that the government is making bad choices, and trying to make those choices look like they’re not even choices at all”)carries a brilliantly brief argument against the cuts and Philosophy Football are proud to produce this non-profit campaign T-shirt in support at the special low price of just £9.99.

Available in sizes small-XXL , plus skinny-rib fit, from www.philosophyfootball.com

 

6 responses to “Cuts won’t work T-shirt”

  1. RobM Avatar
    RobM

    A nice t-shirt from Vince Cable’s no. 1 fan…

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  2. Mark P Avatar
    Mark P

    Its a fair cop. Like hundreds of thousands of others in 2005 and 2010 with the Lib Dems tacking left, against the war, against trident, against tuition fees, in seats where the Labour Candidate was a forlorn hope of finishing third a vote for the Lb Dems semed a decent option. And in some seats where the Labour candidate was pretty right wing the Lib Dems grabbed those seats too by talking left.

    These voters now feel betrayed and are a key group for any anti-cuts campaign that is serious about winning needs to connect to. Instead of traipsing from A-B through half empty streets of London mobilise to canvass in these seats. These LIb Dems want to hold on to their seats more than anything else, a popular and local wave of rejection would quickly start to fracture the coalition. The old tactics won’t work, this should be a highly targeted, localised campaign and it is precisely those who made the mistake that Rob so kindly pointed out in my case that will brea this government apart, fast.

    Mark P

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  3. David Ellis Avatar
    David Ellis

    `…carries a brilliantly brief argument against the cuts.’

    Cut … later, less and different, invest in people and tax better. So a New Labour program then with a bit of meaningless demagogery about a million green jobs that are going to be magiced up so how and a Tobin tax to tie us all into the casino economy?

    Mark P: I get the feeling that you might just be the kind of person who enlessly repeats the same old mistakes and experiments (packaged as something new) whilst somehow expecting a different result. Einstein’s definition of insanity. I mean… Vince Cable???

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  4. Mark P Avatar
    Mark P

    OK tell you what, you flog a ‘General Strike Now’ T-shirt. You’re welcome to it.

    If you actually bothered to read the content of the website http://www.thecutswontwork.co,uk you would have found it making precisely the kind of points that will construct a popular common sense against the cuts.

    Never mind, you keep to your own version of old mistakes and experiments, good luck with the ‘General Strike Now! mind.

    Mark P

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  5. David Ellis Avatar
    David Ellis

    I don’t call for that at the moment Mark. I think the task is to mobilise and politicise the rank and file as far as possible so that eventually we can call our own general strike as a prelude to taking power. Perhaps however if the union bureaucrats became scared enough of growing rank and file anger we might be able to force them to call a one day 24 hour public sector general strike as a taster. At the moment I’d settle for a lead from fire workers defending their interests instead of their leaders buckling to coalition pressure.

    As for common sense, that is what got us into this mess but I do agree that developing a political alternative is imperative.

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  6. Mark P Avatar
    Mark P

    Thanks gawd for that then.

    All the rest of what you write I broadly agree with though the necessity to shape an alternative common sense is surely imperative.

    As for the London firefighters. The way they are being treated is appalling, the GLA clearly want to bust the union and if they succeed it will be a monumental setback for any prospect of significant trade union resistance to the cuts of the kind you describe.

    Mark P

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