March in London on the 26th?

I hope nobody goes. It's an excuse for people who are poorly informed to throw a tantrum about things not going exactly how they want despite the fact they are unable to offer any realistic alternatives themselves. People who are incredibly privileged to live in such an ordered, liberal society but are too spoiled to see it.

Then the majority will get involved in smashing things, fighting the police (who are suffering harder cuts and reductions than any other public sector employees by far) and showing off.
Then the next day people will pretend it's a minority who give the moral majority a bad name, but when they go to bed at night they'll all know that they're just as bad as all the other childish idiots, they're just lucky they didn't get caught.

Ironically, if people behaved like grown ups, then the money saved on boarding up prior to the 'march', the money saved policing the 'march', the money saved on cleaning up after it, the money saved on the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of repairs required following the 'march' and the money wasted prosecuting and on precious few occasions imprisoning the thugs and petty vandals, could be better spent bolstering our economy.

I'm not against having a real march as a form of protest, but this country is incapable of doing so without going too far. People self indulgently think that the way they behave is 'right' simply because they aren't getting their own way.
 
Ah such a warm welcome.

I like how you've managed to get such information from a very simple question in my first post :) I've also failed to say in what capacity I'm going.
 
The cuts are long over due, they need to be wider and deeper. People need to learn to pay for the goods and services that they use, instead of relying on the government and thereby living off the taxpayer.
 
dowie said:
Nope - I'm a tax payer - I'm quite in favour of cuts to government spending.
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At what cost though? Say these cuts give you an extra £1k a year when Osborne cuts tax before the next general election - how does that benefit you when you have to pay an extra £3k to private companies for the services you received before? There are plenty of places you can move to where you don't have to pay tax, only downside is that you have to live in that society. Personally I think things like libraries, school sports, a national health service add something to our society that makes life close to tolerable for everyone.

http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/why-were-marching/
 
Tummy said:
Ah such a warm welcome.

I like how you've managed to get such information from a very simple question in my first post :) I've also failed to say in what capacity I'm going.
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Did you deliberately leave the OP ambiguous in anticipation of being able to write a smug reply?
 
This has the makings of a GD spectacular. All we need now is superewzra and badcompany and we'll be laughing.

Although not literally. Literally, we'll be crying and wishing we were dead.
 
scorza said:
Personally I think things like libraries, school sports, a national health service add something to our society that makes life close to tolerable for everyone.

http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/why-were-marching/
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'Close to tolerable'?!?!?! Do you know where you live?!?!?

Life in this country is very, very tolerable taken on face value, and in comparison with the vast majority of the rest of the world it's practically idylic!

We're very lucky, and the significant percentage of people that attend these marches who simply don't pay tax and have the same standard of living as those of us who work are frankly blessed.

Before I'm told that this is a union march and therefore everyone on it pays tax, I'll simply say 'please don't be so naieve'. There will be a very significant percentage of people on this march who don't pay tax.
 
scorza said:
At what cost though? Say these cuts give you an extra £1k a year when Osborne cuts tax before the next general election - how does that benefit you when you have to pay an extra £3k to private companies for the services you received before?
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I'm not in favour of the cuts because I'm hoping for a tax cut.

We're already in a situation where we have borrowed/spent too much and will need to continue doing for the short term future. There aren't really many options other than cutting spending/increasing taxes. We can't keep on spending at the same rate or we'd simply end up in the situation Greece is in now - the main reason we're not is because the market is still confident in UK PLC due to the plans to cut the deficit.
I do believe in a small state so some of the cuts would also be logical to be purely for ideological reasons alone regardless of our economic situation, the others are needed purely due to the deficit as raising taxes further will only serve to drive away investment. As much as cutting some public sector jobs is going to hurt the economy, driving away businesses would perhaps hurt it even more - lesser of two evils to some extent.
 
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