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12 mayo, 2015

#UK #Election: The #Victory of the #Rich and the Coming #War on #Working #People‏

What should be expected from another five years with David Cameron's Conservatives in power in the United Kingdom? 

Colin Todhunter summerises: "What the UK now has in store is five years of an ideologically driven administration that will push through its welfare-cutting, pro-privatisation policies wrapped up in talk of a need for austerity and presided over by a millionaire-dominated cabinet which represents the interests of the richest echelons of global capital."

In addition to austerity, more attacks on privacy are envisaged with the "snooper's charter", otherwise known as the Draft Communications Data Bill, which Binoy Kampmark describes as "the usual spawn of a misguided security establishment."

Learn more on this topic in the selection of articles below.

UK Election Aftermath: Cameron to Continue Waging War on Working People
Colin Todhunter

What we can now expect to see is the attempted completion of a project that had begun under Thatcher in the eighties: the complete subservience of ordinary working people to the needs of powerful corporations.

Britain's Elections: The Real Lessons of the Tory Victory
Jonathan Cook

The revolution that we need in Britain and the US has to start with a
disengagement from the mainstream media's representation of events. 

Time Bomb in Cameron Government. A Future "Little Britain", separated from Scotland, subservient to America, outside the EU?
Anthony Bellchambers

A future Little Britain: separated from Scotland, subservient to America, outside the European Union and beholden to the conflicting agendas of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) lobby and the SNP is a frightening prospect.

So Britain's 'Dream Team' was not Elected - Now, More of the Same
Political Concern

At least, one writes, there will not be the heartache of watching such a team fail - as did the widely hailed Blair and Obama - beset by vested interest and failing to fulfil expectations.
Surveillance Britain: Toryland and Police Prying
Binoy Kampmark

Security firms such as G4S loom as the bogeys in this equation, taking over traditional functions of the state, while corporations will have a greater say over the national economy, courtesy of the TTIP. 
Britain - No Longer "Great" but Doomed to Another Five Years of Pain and "Austerity"
Lesley Docksey

How could a country where so many of its citizens have suffered because of the 'austerity' policies of the last 5 years vote for another 5 years of misery?

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