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Unfortunately, since the end of quasi corporatism in the early-mid 1980s we've increasingly had government by special pleading - whoever has the ear of government wins the argument. So now since the cuts have emerged - which would have happened whatever government was in power - we have pure government by special pleading, with every institution in the land bleating, exaggerating their case wildly. State spending is being 'cut' so much to keep overall spending flat over the next few years. The promises of the last part of the last government were just fantasies.
I'll protest when the ultimate aim of the protest is not to demand someone else pays for a benefit the protesters are enjoying.