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Published: 15 July, 2010

• THE cuts imposed by the government are another example of wealth transference to the rich from the poor and working people who are subjected to ongoing impoverishment.

Another imposition, and probably more significant, is that the Tory government of today, like the Tory government of 1979, is undertaking as much structural change as they can get away with, to reduce welfare, working rights and privatise everything that has not been privatised already. And when Labour gets back in, like in 1997, these structural changes will be left in place.

However, this week in the Town Hall, there was a refreshing spirit of resistance. And a “spirit of resistance” is something to be taken seriously.

To be sure, it could lead to a few demos, even some compromises, leaving the status quo and its programme intact. But it could also lead elsewhere.

As well as those people and organisations who will always go on lobbies and demos, there could be a growing underpinning of solidarity.

There could be more tenants and unions, unemployed and claimants unions, consumer groups to confront rip-off utility companies and the usury of money lenders, groups to demand the return of playing fields and libraries, to name a few.

There could be trade unions within trade unions to represent the real, actual, aspirations of labour. And there could be those who simply support the justice of the cause and no longer want to be managed or insulted by pointless consultations and want to be part of something democratic and of the people.

In this letter, I have called the government Tory.

This is not because I have forgotten there is a coalition with another party with its own programme and politics, but because they have.

RD WARREN
Broadfield Lane, NW1