The poor are no longer represented - anywhere.

[TheBigotBasher]

Today at the Trade Union Congress the Leader of the Labour Party told Unions that they were wrong to strike for their pensions or against Government cuts.

He told them that the cuts being imposed by the Con Dem coalition were not going to be reversed.

These are cuts that very literally force local councils to pick the deserving poor as a result of a decision to "localise" Council Tax Benefit.
Cuts that will leave thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands homeless as a result of cuts to Housing Benefit.
Cuts that will rob public sector employees of their pensions. The Labour Leader said those negotiations are over. To do the bidding of the coalition the Government got a Labour Social Security Minister to propose the theft.

A Labour Government will not reverse cuts that will up to triple rents for local authority tenants.

All this as part of the agenda of "austerity".

Spread across the Western economies like a plague.

The crash of 2008 is being paid for by the very poorest and very weakest in society.

Labour became uninterested in the poor. They became more concerned with "National Security" and the "knowledge economy". ID cards, wars, protections for the big music and film industry. The Liberal Democrats signed up to the Tory cuts agenda.

I know where I stand.I most certainly know what I stand against. I just do not know who I stand with. The legacy of Bush and Blair bombing the rest of the World into the Anglo/American form of "democracy" means that the the US and UK no longer have one.

[lib2DaBone]

1. Not only will the poor not be represented...

The poor will be drug tested and vilified.

The poor will not have a chance at jobs... because the Republicans only hire people who already HAVE jobs.

It's a giant club.. and you are NOT a member.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Not just unrepresented - unwanted, derided, told to die.

Just ask anyone who saw last night's debate. The hypothetical guy Wolf Blitzer talked about was a stand-in for every poor person in America, and mainstream GOPers want that guy to die.

[MadHound]

3. The poor haven't be represented for decades.

However over the past forty years there has been a successful movement to villainize the poor. That movement is now being seen to its successful conclusion.

[MADem]

6. Yep--ever since the Supremes decided that MONEY EQUALS SPEECH.

If that's the case, well, the poor are mute.

[Hydra]

4. Bizarre how similar it looks on the other side of the pond

from here.

I didn't want to be right about this, but it IS a Culling. Lots of people are going to die so that the Rich can be more comfortable in their towers.

Not with a bang, but with a whimper...

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

5. The US and the UK have not been functioning democracies

for some time now.
Anyone care to guess when they stopped?

[TheBigotBasher]

7. Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QPhMVbleU0