I'm not sure what concerted industrial action would achieve. Like it or not, we are stuck with this government for the next four and a half years.

I agree with the view that the 'financial crisis' is being used as a means of covering up the Tory agenda to attack the public sector anyway, and what makes it worse in my opinion is that at the same time they are maneuvering the third sector to do their bidding.

In my viewit will be the weakest and most disadvantaged in society that will suffer most - including those in part-time low paid work who can barely get by at the moment. Industrial action, tends to be a the powerful meeting the powerful head-on. The government has nopthing to lose if services grind to a standstill, particularly as Middle England constituences decide the outcome of elections - the inner cities who don't support the government anyway would be hardest hit. The government bringing the disadvantaged to its knees, and the unions giving them a kick in the teeth for good measure.