Wanted: Taunton police cadets (From Somerset County Gazette)

News Flash...News Flash...News Fl..

A daring raid by a ruthless and audacious gang of thieves has left police budgets throughout England and Wales in tatters.

The highly organised gang of thieves got away with a huge 20 per cent of all police budgets.

This 20 per cent budget deficit has so far resulted in savage and damaging cuts being announced in each and every police force throughout England and Wales

So far, more than 30,000 police jobs cuts have been announced.

This figure includes more than 12,500 police officers and more than 16,500 police staff.

240 job cuts have been announced in the Avon and Somerset police force alone.


Senior chief officers in Avon and Somerset have announced that these soon to be 'superfluous to requirement' police officers will be replaced by unpaid volunteer 'cadets' aged 14 to 17.

Forensic teams examining the scene of the crime immediately identified the fingerprints to be those of the notorious gang of thieves known to the general public as the 'Con-Dem government', currently headed by the notorious duo Cameron and Clegg.


This Con-Dem gang of multi-millionaires have posed as the self-styled government of the United Kingdom, after effectively seizing power in May 2010.

Cameron and Clegg's vicious gang aim to finish what Margaret Thatcher started in the 1980s and Labour enthusiastically continued whilst in government from 1997 - 2010.

These recently announced police cuts must be viewed against the broader background of public sector cuts in general. This background of cuts include potentially catastrophic life threatening attacks on the NHS.

Cameron and Clegg's gang of Con-Dem millionaires are seizing this opportunity to loot the NHS and hand over lucrative contracts to their millionaire friends and accomplices in the City - the same people who brought the world economy crashing to its knees - as well as asking us to pay for their crisis through cuts in our jobs, our wages and our public services.

The Con-Dems however are much weaker than Thatcher's Tory government, and yet she was brought down in 1990 by the mass movement that involved involved 18 million non-payers against the poll tax.

Many hundreds of thousands of Somerset County Gazette readers old enough to remember, will look back and proudly remember their involvement in this historic mass movement that altered history's course. In participating in the largest civil-disobedience campaign within living memory, millions of people surprised themselves as they collectively rose to the challenge.

The challenge posed to the millions by this ruthless gang of multi-millionaires is the most serious threat to our living standards since the 1930's. New 'Labour' say they would not reverse any of the Con-Dem's cuts, revealing their true character as yet another capitalist party that represent the interest of the muti-millionaires at the expense of the remaining 99% of us.

Public and private sector trade unionists together with the unemployed, the sick, the disabled, pensioners, youth and students along with local anti-cuts campaigns, all have the collective potential potential power to stop and topple this criminal coalition of austerity...Let's do it!

www.socialistparty.o
rg.uk

Police demo shows that opposition to cuts is growing....

On the same day as the public sector workers' pensions strike, 10 May, the Police Federation called a demonstration in London to protest at attacks to the police service.

Their issues included 20% cuts to the police service, which is leading to redundancies, opposition to the Winsor Report on the Police Service, which includes cuts to pay levels and conditions on top of a two-year pay freeze and increased pension contributions, and opposition to privatisation of core police functions.

Socialists who went to intervene in the police demo were wondering what the response would be. The answer surprised us.

An estimated 35,000 off-duty officers marched, fuming with the government over the above issues. So much so that they snatched all the leaflets from the handful of Socialist Party members there - we underestimated the response we would get! - and over 50 copies of the Socialist were sold.

Many officers politely declined to take leaflets or buy our paper. Some said they were non-political and were surprised to learn how many of their colleagues had bought a copy.

But there were very few hostile responses. And we made it clear to those who wanted to talk that we have strong criticisms of the policing of demos, picket lines and communities (Google to see articles: Socialist Party,Grim toll for hidden police racism and Socialist party, After the Riots)

But we welcomed any action that brought the Police Federation and ordinary police officers closer to the trade union movement if they are going into conflict with their employers, the government and police authorities.

We supported their right to strike, which they may ballot for soon and will have to fight for if they win the ballot.

But this is truly the sign of a government and capitalist society on the rocks when sections of its state feel the need to demonstrate against it! The police are used by the government to frighten people off from demonstrating, as brutally experienced by students in 2010, but developments like this could help to weaken their use against strikers and demonstrators in the future.

www.socialistparty.o
rg.uk

- you were doing sooo well on the other comments threads and you've had a relapse..

TauntonSocialistPart
y wrote:
Police demo shows that opposition to cuts is growing....

On the same day as the public sector workers' pensions strike, 10 May, the Police Federation called a demonstration in London to protest at attacks to the police service.

Their issues included 20% cuts to the police service, which is leading to redundancies, opposition to the Winsor Report on the Police Service, which includes cuts to pay levels and conditions on top of a two-year pay freeze and increased pension contributions, and opposition to privatisation of core police functions.

Socialists who went to intervene in the police demo were wondering what the response would be. The answer surprised us.

An estimated 35,000 off-duty officers marched, fuming with the government over the above issues. So much so that they snatched all the leaflets from the handful of Socialist Party members there - we underestimated the response we would get! - and over 50 copies of the Socialist were sold.

Many officers politely declined to take leaflets or buy our paper. Some said they were non-political and were surprised to learn how many of their colleagues had bought a copy.

But there were very few hostile responses. And we made it clear to those who wanted to talk that we have strong criticisms of the policing of demos, picket lines and communities (Google to see articles: Socialist Party,Grim toll for hidden police racism and Socialist party, After the Riots)

But we welcomed any action that brought the Police Federation and ordinary police officers closer to the trade union movement if they are going into conflict with their employers, the government and police authorities.

We supported their right to strike, which they may ballot for soon and will have to fight for if they win the ballot.

But this is truly the sign of a government and capitalist society on the rocks when sections of its state feel the need to demonstrate against it! The police are used by the government to frighten people off from demonstrating, as brutally experienced by students in 2010, but developments like this could help to weaken their use against strikers and demonstrators in the future.

www.socialistparty.o

rg.uk

I thought you had been warned about spouting you vile Socialist spiel?
Obviously being a Socialist like yourself also means having learning difficulties.

Trotsky's back.

Learning Difficulties as a result of our nasty capitalist society no doubt.

Living under Stalin was much better!! The Stazi were a textbook police force.

It's nice to know that the older cadets will be able to go out with the pcso's. At least they will be home before it gets dark.