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LONDON MARCH 26/03/2011 This is your opportunity to voice your concerns over the funding cuts. Government spending cuts will damage public services and put more than a million out of work. They will hit the vulnerable, damage communities and undermine much of what holds us together as a society. Ministers say there is no alternative. But both of the government's two key decisions are political choices, not economic necessity. Eliminating the deficit in just four years is a savage timetable that does not give economic growth the opportunity to raise the nation’s tax take. Indeed the deep cuts promised will depress the economy making deeper cuts necessary to meet this timetable. Raising four pounds through cuts for every pound raised through tax – and doing most of this through a rise in VAT that hits the poor and those on middle income the most – is deeply unfair. The recession was made in the finance sector, yet banks and those now enjoying gigantic bonuses once again, are not being asked to make a fair contribution. Yet none of these policies were put to the British people at the election, indeed we were told that there was no need for cuts in front-line services. People round the country are already campaigning against these deep, rapid cuts. Students have shown their opposition to cuts, the ends of EMAs and increases in fees. Parents and teachers have opposed cuts in school building. School sport, libraries and public woodlands all now have strong defenders. Few towns now don’t have their own campaign group. The TUC’s March for the Alternative has two key aims. First we want to give a national voice to all those affected by the cuts. This will be a huge event that in its breadth and support shows just how much opposition there is to the government’s programme. It will bring together public service workers and those who depend on good public services. Those involved in national campaigns, and those defending what is special in their own community. Second we want to show that people reject the argument that there is no alternative. Of course the recession did damage to our economy. But these deep rapid cuts are not the best way to solve our problems, and may well make them worse. That is why it is the March for the Alternative – an alternative in which rich individuals and big companies have to pay all their tax, that the banks pay a Robin Hood tax and on in which we strain every sinew to create jobs and boost the sustainable economic growth that will generate the prosperity which is the only long term way to close the deficit and reduce the nation’s debt. If your are in a union there may well be places left on coaches and minibuses down to the event. Please make an effort to attend as we can't let the ConDem Gov't rape this country. LINKS: March For the Alternative: Jobs, Growth, Justice | 26 March 2011: March and rally against the cuts A Million Voices for Public Services - Home | March 26: March for public services TUC national demonstration against the cuts TUC National Demonstration Against Cuts | 26 March | Coalition of Resistance Against Cuts & Privatisation NUT : National Union of Teachers - The largest fully qualified primary and secondary education union | Our aim: one union for all teachers. Travel details released for 26 March

Sorry, couldn't resist doing this:

I'd give him a home but he'd scare the carp out of my daughter looking the way he does.

That's gonna be nasty - first two have penetrated the bone, third finger it's just flesh. Sort of stupid accident I'd do to myself

I bet he was Lithuanian. I have a friend who's Lithuanian and he drives like that.

For an open evening I once got lumbered with the job of making the ID badges for all the school staff. Nothing fancy, just the school logo, and under their names was their job role and the department they were in. The next morning I had a delegation of Teaching Assistants from the Art department visit me because (and I genuinely hadn't noticed this) of the fact that their badges read "TA ARTS"..... ...they hadn't noticed either until some bright spark parent pointed it out during the evening...!

That's ace!

I need a new car battery for my wife's car - a 1997 Ford Mondeo 1.8 16v - where's the best place to go and what's a decent make of battery to buy? Many thanks.

Black T-Shirt, V-neck sweater, black jeans, black doc martens. Crew cut to scare the kids. I'm old and I don't care anymore. Occasionally I'll go in wearing a suit, shirt, tie and cufflinks to scare everybody into thinking I'm going for an interview

I was asked to investigate a suspicious / abusive email at my last place that my boss had received and on first inspection in did look dodgy - there was an email in her inbox from a d###head@#######.com (hashes used to protect the individual/company). It turned out it was genuine and that was the email address that the guy had set up for himself, a Mr. Richard Head.... It was back in 1998 and we weren't all as tech-savvy and worldly-wise as we are now I guess!

It's man flu. Do what I do - gargle with Mr. Daniels and get on with it.

It's diabolos here. I would have thought they would be banned on H&S grounds but they haven't.

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "having a gang bang...."

I didn't know Arthur Scargill was a singer in his younger days.....

It's simples - old people like to have the heating turned up whatever the weather, so the heat from the crematorium keeps them all toasty in the old people's home, and then when they pop their clogs they generate some heat for their pals in the home and someone else comes along to take their place in the home and so on....... I think I've just solved global warming?

I wish I could go back to 1985 but have then what I have now.

So the next business model would be to build an old people's home right next to a crematorium. How energy efficient would that be?! Like perpetual motion....! [n.b. please bear in mind the above is a joke...]

So the question is, which would win between FN-GM and the Granny and Tech_Guy and her handbag? FIGHTTTTTTTTTTT!

Well, bags I get to use her handbag though!

Yeah, but my title's better. Wanna fight over it?

Mad and brave pensioner takes on armed robbers with her handbag: Anglia Regional News | Anglia Tonight - ITV Local Somebody give her a job running the country!

OMG that's freaky like something out of The Ring it's super weird!

George Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows" but played in the style of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.....

Madelin Zero "Gotta Know"..... ....it was driving me nuts if you pardon the pun!