Metal Reviews

And there's direct action planned against cuts? Yikes.

The media has been full of predictions of a summer of discontent. Just how much of one is there going to be? Will it be this summer? Or will the unions wait to see what happens? "Look. One of the things I said at the NUT conference is that we all know it's coming. Therefore, what would be irresponsible is to wait till it comes. So what we're calling for is the public sector unions to get together now, and start preparing the defence. Do I think that will involve industrial action? I think that it's inevitable. Do I think that industrial action has more chance of success if unions do it together? Absolutely. I think it will be a fatal mistake if each union was left to try and defend its individual sector, where the chances of them succeeding are small."

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Provocatively, he sees there might be scope for the mainstream politicisation of the unions themselves. "I think that it is going to become fairly evident that it is the unions who will become seen as the leaders of the opposition. After the election, whoever wins, when this dismantling of public spending takes place, there is every possibility we will see the rise of community-based social movements seeking to defend welfare and pensions and services, and I think the unions have to gravitate to community campaigning." Who knows? In areas where they believe there is no one else to vote for, they might even field their own candidates. Serwotka is certainly going to ballot his members to that effect. "And I think that's quite exciting."

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Good luck, Goat!

I'm not going to say good luck to Lib or Lab, but let us wholeheartedly say:

Bad luck, Conservatives!

Good luck, Goat!

I'm not going to say good luck to Lib or Lab, but let us wholeheartedly say:

Bad luck, Conservatives!

Yeah. If this has crystallised anything for me, it's that I believed firmly and proudly in my party's manifesto, what we stand for we stand for still, and we will do the best for the country in any hung parliaments. Forwards march.

God, what a frigging depressing evening. We've got about 22% so far, basically what we were expecting before Cleggmania, which has not turned into votes. Dreadful night for us Libs, in many ways. Evan Harris is gone, madly, Zac Goldsmith beat Sue Kramer, and my local awesome PPC in Bury South who we have been working our socks off for, Vic D'Albert, came a decent third, but the BNP came fourth which is godawful. Just heard that Marge Hodge got 20,000 more votes than Griffin in Barking, so that makes up for it, I suppose, although he beat us to third. They have made gains in terms of numbers of votes, and are a bigger threat than ever.

The bright spots so far are that Caroline Lucas has got in, first Green MP, she deserved to win, bless her. Vince Cable had a big win, I think there would have been suicides if he lost, our best man. What a fucking crap voting system - 40 seats we have so far, down twentysomething.

How conservative is conservative over there? I always got the impression that "convservative" to you guys is more like our liberal, though that's just what I've heard.
Conservative, to me, is Reagan, Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Buckley (before he embraced neo-conservatism) and so on.

Depends. The tory leadership presents a very moderate front indeed, which in many ways is indistinguishable from labour or the lib dems.

Within the party ranks, however, you will find people much further to the right, who get swept under the carpet by Cameron.