Not everybody who voted at the last election did so expecting to see the Liberal Democrats propping up a failed right-wing Tory Government whose policies will bring hardship to millions of working people, low-waged and elderly.

The cost-cutting across the UK will result in job losses en masse, and all under the guise of reducing a £160billion deficit.

It is a guise, because the Tories have merely reverted to type, just as they did in the 80s and 90s under Thatcher and Major.

Cutting the deficit is really all about reducing the role of the state in subsidy and investment.

We remember the devastation the Tories caused through the Thatcher/Major years – cutting the State pension, abolishing our manufacturing base, destroying social housing, abolishing minimum wages, and reducing the social framework and morality of this country to that of a dog-eat-dog nation.

They will carry this further, and LibDem ministers will not be able to stop them.

The LibDems’ own core beliefs will never see the light of day, and true LibDem supporters, and Labour supporters who voted for the LibDems this time round, will have been betrayed.

Something must be initiated to give people a chance to fight back.

Link-Age/Countrywide is a non-party-political pensioners’ pressure group with support across Britain from former core Labour voters, former LibDem voters, and left-of-centre conservatives – people who no longer have any political party to vote for.

This initiative is to tell LibDem ministers that people are unhappy that they are upholding another right-wing Tory government.

Michael Thompson, Link-Age/Countrywide.