Britain's austerity drive: fight the cuts!
On Monday 7 June, David Cameron declared war on British workers — the public sector workers who will lose jobs, the jobless who will lose benefits, the working-class people who will find the services they depend on are gone, or have been privatised out. Britain’s “way of life”, said Cameron, would be fundamentally disrupted, for years to come. Was Cameron just preparing expectations and talking up the scale of the cuts? No. One consultancy firm, Capital Economics, predicts as many as 750,000 jobs will go in the public sector. We are not, as Cameron put it, “all in this together”. Bosses who...