This week we have witnessed plans which will have a devastating impact upon the people of England. George Osborne’s proposals will possibly achieve what Hitler’s Luftwaffe failed to do during World War II, and destroy what is left of our industry and our communities. The heirs of Margaret Thatcher now truly walk the corridors of power and aim to finish the job the ‘Iron Lady’ started and to some degree what the Blair-Brown Tory-Labour regime continued.

We had the speech about what was going to be slashed and then a few words about what the Government intends to spend some of its money on. The speech was delivered as if we all should be grateful that the Government was prepared to spend money which the likes of every hard working person in England helps create. Such is the true disdain the George Osborne’s of this world have for people outside of millionaires row.

On the surface Osborne attempted to make the cuts look respectable, claiming they were all necessary. Most people do agree the cuts are necessary, but the areas these cutbacks will hit, such as investment in job creation will have far reaching devastating effects. Whilst other countries are investing in training and job creation, the Con-Dem Government is cutting back. This can only lead to England falling further behind other nations, with more companies relocating abroad.

Another area where the Osborne has made a miscalculation is local authority housing. Many people in what is commonly called ‘council houses’ are on low incomes with a large number having to receive housing benefit. Osborne plans to increase rents in local authority housing to near the level of rented properties in the private sector. Therefore, despite more money being generated from increased rents, more shall have to be paid in housing benefits. This also poses the question, to reap more money, will the sum for housing benefit be almost abolished when the Universal Benefit comes into effect?

When it comes to making cutbacks perhaps the Government should look at its military campaign in Afghanistan, a land which the might of the British Empire and the former Soviet Union failed to conquer. Our involvement in Afghanistan and our general position as a military poodle of the USA and NATO is costly in terms of lives lost as well as money, and also acts as a catalyst to bring the war and terrorism to the streets of England. Perhaps the Government should look at the vast sums of money it sends to the European Union, helping to fund the gravy train and the expenditure of other countries. Perhaps the Government should look at foreign aid, much of which ends up in the hands of corrupt politicians or multi-national companies instead of the people it is intended to help. Perhaps the Government should tighten regulations that allow their super rich friends to take billions out of the country without paying a penny in tax. Perhaps they should truly look at the greed of the global capitalist system which dragged us into this mess in the first place!

Needless to say, the English Radical Alliance is firmly opposed to the scale and direction of cutbacks the Con-Dem government wish to make. We are the leading English political party in fighting these cutbacks as we recognise the severity of them and the detrimental effect they will have on the English economy and the people of England. Over the coming weeks and months we will be actively campaigning against the negative Con-Dem proposals which will rob the next generation and England of its future. We will be pushing our distributist forward as an alternative to the failed capitalist and socialist systems almost all the other parties favour. If the foundations of a house are collapsing the whole building is unstable. The same can be said of an economy. Unless it is built on solid foundations one day it will collapse. Build it on the same foundations and it will collapse again. Unfortunately the major parties and even some of those that fly the Union flag and the Cross of St.George would simply rebuild the country on the same unstable foundations. With this in mind, the English Radical Alliance represents the only true alternative.