Liberals: if you love the government so much why to we need public sector unions?

Because they live in a deluded fantasy land. Did they strike when thousands lost their jobs in the Banking industry, no. Did they strike when Corus shut Lackenby costing thousands of jobs, no.

Did they strike when Rover shut costing thousands of jobs, no. Did they strike when 100's of thousands in the Private sector went on 3 day weeks so that fellow workers didn't lose their jobs, no. Did they go on strike when statistics came out that under Labour we had the fewest ever jobs since records began in the manufacturing industries, no.

They are going on strike now because the massively over bloated Public sector are having to do what the Private sector has been doing for the last 3 years, boo hoo, toys out the pram.

The Government is not a neutral organisation working in the interests of the whole community. The Coalition is class based composed of privileged people protecting the economic interests and political power of their class while the lower and working class pay for the greed and incompetence of the entire political class. The "socialist" trade unions, as you describe them, are paying lip service to defending the interests of their members.

Whether or not they will succeed is problematical but it is the ordinary people who are suffering and will continue to do so. You seem to think that trade unions are some kind of military organisation that can turn militancy on and off like a tap. It is the rank and file members that will be pushing the trade union leaders to take action as their standards of living and job security are put to the knife.

The leaders will be doing their best to defuse rank and file militancy as they have done in every major industrial dispute since 1918. As for your "commonsense". Is it commonsense to give the bankers, like the HSBC and other foreign corporations, £850 billion and an unlimited line of interest free credit?

Is it commonsense to let tax evasion cost this country £70 billion a year in tax? As for your comment about a smaller public sector - it is a nonsense. The fewer people in work the less people buy, demand shrinks, manufacturing produces less, more become unemployed, tax revenues shrink and the situation feeds upon itself and worsens.

I am simplifying immensely but I suggest you read up on basic economics. You think the NHS etc is Socialist? You must be American rightwinger!

No one else could be so economically illiterate. Yup! Definitely American.

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