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1. John McFall MP, Why is the defence budget sacrosanct? As Treasury minister you have oversight of all departmental budgets. Why does New Labour persist in ignoring the British public and continue to approve vast billions on Trident's replacement, new aircraft carriers and weaponry to fight foreign wars whilst at the same time stuffing the bankrupt banks with taxpayers' money whilst leaving production industry to go bankrupt? 
   You have clearly forgotten your roots and the people who worked to elect you in the first place. Instead of subsidisning weapons production and giving top-down taxpayer-funded banker-friendly bail-outs you should be giving bail-outs to ordinary people to organise co-ops to provide the goods and services they and their community need. Why don't you trust the people to come up with their own solutions to the economic crisis? All they need is a helping hand. Micro-finance has great possibilities. Macro-finance to the banks and PFI and privatised monopolies will get you voted out. Isn't the private polling you do telling you that already?
   Asked by cooperator on Mar 04 2009 7:20:30 PM and supported by 15 members
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