We're all in this together but some of us more than others

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It's Gordon Gecko on crack. Whatever happened to shame or fear of reprisal when it comes to excessive greed? Oh yes, it disappeared with the fall of communism, which kept it in check for a few decades. Bosses have given themselves a 55% pay rise this year - so much for austerity...that's for little people on welfare, like single mums, and people looking for a job, or on disability allowance. Get with the programme! You all tighten your belts now, because some people are going to have to get a new belt, a much wider one. Their girth is expanding as ours contracts. This is the beautiful Coalition world that we live in...who needs satire? I think what we really need is the guillotine. It's due a comeback.

Silence in the face of this onslaught

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Isn't the 'Coalition' the pseudonym used to describe the invaders of Iraq? I have been silent pretty much since the general election because I have nothing to say that has not been said already. But I enjoyed - if that is the right word - this comment on Polly Toynbee's devastating piece on Coalition housing cuts:

This country, under the Coalition, is up shit creek; but Plan B does exist. After a couple of years, when it finally hits the fan, the Coalition will declare that it was always the 'workshy' and 'sick' who dragged the country down, and by then, their total demonization by the right-wing press will allow for even more draconian cuts and further disenfranchisement of these 'traitors' from society. You can see where this is going... but for the Coalition, there is no choice, because these categories are the only 'enemies' they choose to define as hampering economic progress. The Coalition has chosen its fall guys; and many of the most vulnerable people in our society will die as a direct result of this ideological nightmare we call a government.