Cuts and Thugs

The so-called student demonstations against the UK Coalition government's changes to Higher Education funding were doubtless only the first of many, as the public sector union bosses have promised others next year. This is all quite predictable, although the police must adopt a priori a more active and forceful policy toward controlling them. Banning marches in built up areas of London would be a good first step. Representative democracy must ALWAYS prevail over Leftist violence in the streets.

As a Conservative, the partial demise of the Lib Dems at the next Parliamentary election in 2015 would just be an added bonus! The coalition has been - and will doubtless continue to be - very useful to the Conservative Party after just failing to win a majority in 2010, but gaining that majority in 2015 and governing alone must be the ultimate aim. The defeat of the Alternative Voting system in next May's referendum will be a very good start. The reduction in the size of the House of Commons to 600 and the redrawing of all the Constituency boundaries before 2015 should considerably benefit the Conservatives, so gaining a healthy majority should be well within reach - especially if the economny has recovered well by then. But between now and then, there are interesting times ahead.