Rafflesbear: "if the Lib-Dem leadership were convinced they would be wiped off the political map by continuing to support the coalition it ought to make a difference"
"Myself I would like to see a growth strategy that would help pay back the deficit. As it is how much money do you save by making half a million more people unemployed and giving them benefits instead of collecting their taxes?"

Yep. I guess the political influence of Guardian reading liberals is potentially quite a key one where this coalition is concerned. In theory if enough pressure were applied in the right places, it could force a dissolution of parliament?

I certainly can't see this government altering it's economic strategy, which IMO as has been said elsewhere, represents a prime *opportunity* for them to enforce capitalist economic ideology rather than representing a situation of no genuine alternative options.

Otherwise, the TUC have called for public support of their demonstration against the cuts in Hyde Park on 26th March:

"So now we'll be taking our message to ordinary men and women, encouraging them to get involved in our campaign against the cuts. On Tuesday, the TUC held a successful rally and lobby of parliament, bringing together unions and organisations such as Crisis and the Child Poverty Action Group.
'On Wednesday, to coincide with the spending review, unions held protests from Plymouth in the south to Newcastle in the north. Today, demonstrations are taking place in Cambridge, Bristol, Sheffield, Birmingham, Belfast, Edinburgh, Lincoln and London.
'So let's start campaigning and mobilising for our national demonstration against the cuts next Spring in London's Hyde Park on Saturday 26 March. Together let's make that mobilisation the biggest, boldest and best event in our history."

Hyde Park TUC Demo 26th March