Get a grip Ed

AN OLDHAM MP has fired a warning shot at his party leadership telling them not to accept the Government’s “callous and unjust” cuts.

Oldham West and Royton MP Michael Meacher has also described the mood among Labour members across his constituency as “more despairing” than he could remember.

The Labour MP said that “the next general election will be closer than it should be” if his party didn’t oppose Government cuts.

He has warned leader Ed Miliband that the grass roots want the party to provide a plausible alternative to the endless austerity, have a positive vision for the next government and to campaign across the country with bold policies to build the alliance to throw out the “most vicious Tory government in modern times”.

Mr Meacher said: “My Labour members simply cannot understand how the party leadership can be accepting time after time whatever callous and unjust cuts George Osborne throws at us — bedroom tax, withdrawal of benefit for the first seven days of unemployment, and now a welfare cap which even the Tories themselves haven’t yet defined.

“Is there no limit to how far this surrender goes, they ask? When is the pain of what is being inflicted on our supporters going to register some passion in Parliament? They don’t want to talk of betrayal, but they are bewildered, hurt, disoriented and despairing.”
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