TURNING UP THE VOLUME......

Not much time for blogging recently as too busy trying to hang on to employment and in many ways the sheer scale of the onslaught against working people makes Twitter a much easier option.
I have tweeted my anger at Labour MPs defending the odious and indefensible Woolas, support for the students on yesterday's anti tuition fees demo.
Today, we have the appalling spectacle of "Quiet Man" IDS turning up the volume and outlining his reforms to welfare benefit. Punitive beyond belief, and front page fodder for the Mail, where news editors will be beside themselves with glee, it is time we reminded ourselves of a very salient fact.
Around £10billion a year goes UNCLAIMED in welfare benefits
Benefit fraud costs an estimated £1Billion
Tax dodging and evasion by the filthy rich earns them at least £120 billion a year.
As the new labour ultras commend IDS on his "courage" I am reminded of that old song which says "It's the rich wot gets the pleasure.. and the poor wot gets the blame."
And, when Ed Miliband comes back from paternity leave, it's time he started cracking down on the pronouncements from Douglas Alexander and the shameful way some in the PLP have treated Harriet Harman for standing firm on Woolas.
Blackley MP Graham Stringer, a man who used to tirelessly fight -racism as leader of Manchester City Coumncil, should be ashamed of himself for supporting the xenophobic ex-MP for Oldham East.