Find out the Government are trying to change your conditions through the media

Absolutely outrageous that the Government tell us through the media that they intend to change our conditions. Having seen the previous Labour Government defeated in the courts over the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, the millionaires in the Con-Dem Government now intend not only to move the goalposts, but shift the whole playing field. The stinking rich Francis Maude tells us that this is the fault of PCS. I'm afraid I'm angry, so I can't resist saying what bloody cheek! He was a minister in Margaret Thatcher's government that decided to give us these conditions in the first place.

The Con-Dems tell us we are all in this together and after all Maude has taken a 5 per cent pay cut; not hard when your ministerial salary is your pocket money! A bit different to our members who dare to earn over £21,000 a year and have their pay frozen for two years. Now they're coming for our compensation scheme and next it will be our pensions.

There is an alternative to the cuts the Government want to make. This is not an exercise in simple accountancy, it is a series of deliberate decisions in political economics; a series of decisions that will see the rich consolidate their wealth at the expense of everyone else. If you want to solve our 'debt crisis' collect the £120bn owed in Income Tax and tax the banks that have 'stolen' our money.

Of course, the Con-Dems will not do this; they look after their friends and supporters.

We invite all members to attend the next meeting of Leicester Against the Cuts; an initiative we played the leading role in creating. This will be held on Monday 19 July at 7.30 pm in the Independent Arts Centre, Humberstone Gate, Leicester.

We can and we will defeat the attacks of this Government if we unite the trade union movement and all those fighting cuts in Britain and the rest of Europe. Come and play your part!