Has britain got its balls back

After todays mass protests by students in and around Westminster which some say was as much as 60 thousand people.

BBc strikes last week, tube strikes becoming regular, firefighters going on strike and many many still to come i am sure of it.

so i ask the question has britain finally woken up and got its balls back to fight back ?

have people had enough of the capitalist society we have turned in to and want a farier possibly even a socialist agenda put back into society. I for one would be for taht, I do think labour could pick up many votes if it turned itself a little to the left, It would surely pick up a lot of disaffected lib dems for a start.

I just think now that this winter will be just the start of the working people the down trodden for years who have to sit by and watch their jobs go, pay cut, conditions worsen come back.

It took Margret tatchers government 6 years for protests like today this coalition government with the tories and lib dems has only taken a matter of months. Just think waht the country will be like in 2 or 3 years time. scarey and very worrying is my assessment.

I think there will be more strikes and the TUC's general strike in late march seems a long way away now but they may bring it forward, i know a lot of trade unionists want it to be brought forward to this side of christmas. Striking should always be a last resort but i think will be one of the ways to bring down this government who seem hell bent on causing the less well off pain and suffering.

It will be interesting to learn which way Ed miliband takes labour now with strikes looming large and people becoming angry. If labour stand in the middle of the road for too long it will look like we are just trying to please all. As we all know you cannot do this in politics and before long you will get found out. So i do hope Ed milibanda nd his shadow cabinet stand on teh side of the people who are being affected by all these cuts.

But i do think today the old britain has awoken and the beast is stirring....

will labour side with the unions?

Hi i have just come back from a meeting tonight about the cuts in stevenage, i am begginging to wonder about labours position on the cuts, will we side with the unions and create a movement agaisnt cuts, similar to the likes we saw agaisnt the poll tax in the late 80's ?

or do we carry on ed's course of sticking to the centre of british politics alienating the unions further and ourselves even more. do we oppose every cut or carry on putting our cuts out there, which to be fair would have impacted on people the same way, or do we believe our cuts would have been fairer ? i am still in favour of a robin hood tax that takes more money off the banks and spreads it more equally amoung the less well off myself. That is a socialist view of course but do we not need a bit more socialist values pumped into this political system ? i think we do.

i think there is a growing movement within unions to change things. i can feel it coming, the tories are running scared but if they dont reconsider this is what will happen i am afraid. The people will fight back, not litterally but take the protests to the streets. Over 20 thousand marched in scotland last weekend went largely unreported and the same in london, bristol, lincoln and birmingham. This will only grow as the cuts deepen.

my question is which side do labour sit now, are we with our friends at the unions are we on the side of business's we need to be sure.