"Skiing or horse riding this weekend, I just can't decide!"

On June 22nd the ConDem government will release its emergency budget, plunging us into a nightmare of cuts and job losses. In a speech today Posh PM David Cameron gave some hint as to his real economic agenda.

He said:

”How we deal with these things will affect our economy, our society – indeed our whole way of life. ‘The decisions we make will affect every single person in our country. And the effects of those decisions will stay with us for years, perhaps decades, to come.”

When he says our way of life is going to have to change, the way of life he’s referring to is the right of public sector workers to have a job that pays them enough to live on, or the right of people thrown out of work by capitalism to receive some support to keep them alive.

King William IV's shagging about produced, 5 generations later, our current PM

You can bet he doesn’t mean his own way of life. He and his wife have a combined wealth of £30 million. He’s a direct descendant of King William IV and his mistress of the time, making him a fifth cousin of the Queen. Everybody knows he went Eton ‘Hogwarts for Bastards’ College, which costs over 24 grand a year in fees. No doubt some of his vast stack of cash makes a big contribution towards his stated hobby of horse riding, alongside other jolly fun outdoor pursuits that the rest of us don’t have time or cash to pursue.

Then there’s tosspot deputy PM Nicholas William Peter Clegg, worth personally £1.9 million. This horsefly enjoys walking near his expensive home in the Peak District. Growing up, when he wasn’t at his own uber-posh Westminster school at the cost of around 2o grand a year, he had access to his rich Daddy’s multiple homes in London, the Chilterns and skiing chalet in the Swiss Alps.

Or Chancellor and axeman in Chief George Gideon Oliver Osborne, who through the trust fund that owns a 15% stake in Daddy’s company is worth around £4million. Some of this goes on his personal love of skiing and wintersports. Nothing says posh like the names he’s chosen for his kids: Luke Benedict Osborne and Liberty Kate Osborne.

Whatever happens to the rest of us, these chaps are going to go on enjoying the great outdoors, horsey fun and hitting the alpine slopes, while the rest of us are forced to live with the miserable consequences of their cuts.

Cameron’s speech predictably enough made lots of noise about “the crisis is much worse than we thought”, “we’re going to have to cut more than ever” etc. etc. Translation: we’re in power now so we’ll say all the things we tried to hide from you during the election campaign.

Clegg takes an afternoon stroll. WHILE YOU'RE AT WORK.

In fact what all this chat about the way of life means is a warning from our right wing government. They are using this crisis as an opportunity to push through things we would never accept in normal times. It’ll start with cuts and job losses, then move on to attacking and dismantling the NHS and privatising the post office. The ConDems have a clear, classic, neoliberal agenda for transforming the UK into a place where what remains of our public services are gone and we’re forced to slave for basic survival.

They want to sneak this all through while we’re still in shock, convincing us that there’s no choice. But they are making a choice: a political choice to smash up the services that keep the poorest in our society going. It’s time to get active to stop them.

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