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National Troll A Tory Day! – December 15th

notowelfarecuts | 12.12.2010 12:07 | Other Press | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | World


For all those unable to attend the National Day of Action Against Benefit Cuts we are pleased to present the first National Troll A Tory Day* on December 15th 2010.

 http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/national-day-of-protest-against-welfare-housing-benefit-cuts/

*Tory can also be taken to mean Lib Dem, as we can longer see any difference between them.

Spend the day online firing out as many passionate, mischievous, heartfelt or just down and dirty rude messages to the Tory press, Tory or Libdem bloggers and Tory/Lib Dem MPs wherever they may skulk.

For too long the media have portrayed benefit claimants as scroungers, lazy or fraudulent. This is our chance to tell the truth about life on benefits and how these cuts will affect us all.

The obvious candidates are the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Sun. All allow comments and in the Mail’s case these comments are sometimes unmoderated. Find a recent story about benefit claimants, or just dive in an interrupt the latest chat about X Factor.

In the event comments are removed or strictly moderated then why not switch to Tory/Lib Dem bloggers. Government supporting website Guido Fawkes and MP Iain Dale are two of the most prominent. Again comment moderation may be turned on, but don’t let that put you off, make them work for their living for a change. Should you tire of these, then Iain Dale has a handy list of the top 100 Conservative blogs to get your teeth into. There’s a similar list of Lib Dem blogs on Libdemvoice.

 http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/09/top-100-conservative-blogs.html

 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-75-lib-dem-blogs-the-total-politics-list-15984.html

Facebookers might want to pay a visit to the facebook pages of David Cameron, Nick Clegg or Vince Cable. Conservative Home, and conservatives.com also have the facility to leave comments. Lots of Tory councillors and MPs have blogs, use google to find them and give them a piece of your mind. If you have a blog yourself why not write a post about the upcoming benefit cuts or use facebook, twitter or any of the new fangled devices available to show your contempt.

You can write to your MP via theyworkforyou.com. Or how about a letter to your local paper explaining to them how the vicious benefit cuts are likely to impact on you or your family.

The internet gives us unprecedented opportunity to tell this spineless Government exactly what we think of them. Let’s come out in force on the 15th December and start the fight back against the welfare and housing benefit cuts set to devastate so many lives.

For links to all the above mentioned sites visit:  http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/national-troll-a-tory-day/

facebook event at:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180914318588406

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Partisan?

12.12.2010 12:33

So tory can mean lib/dem as well. Can it also mean new labour? After all, all these parties have followed the Thatcherite policies of selling of national assets to the highest bidder, form the gold reserves to the channel tunnel rail link.

anarchist


Don't break the net just yet, we need it.

12.12.2010 13:01

It won't achieve anything other than more oppresive legislation that will damage our ability to organise.

Think!


The use of differences

12.12.2010 14:57

Yes, from your (our?) political perspective both Tories and Lib Dems may be aligned against what we want. But jumping from that to concluding "no difference between them" creates an inability to utilize whatever real differences there may be.

Understand what I am saying? Perhaps the British political future involves three (or more) major political factions instead of just two at a time as was common for most of the last hundred years. In an enironment where no political faction can be expected to form a majority government on its own, where as in much of the rest of the "pariamentary democracy" world all governments are per force coalitions, it is vital to understand wherre ones opponents are NOT in accord. Those are the cracks where you have to try to insert wedges.

MDN


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