As some of you will of no doubt heard, Pittards due to the current weakness of the US dollar is set to shed about a quarter of its workforce. This is part of an ongoing decline in the company, one where we've seen a scaling back of the workforce and pension deficits over the last few years.

To quote the Yeovil Express: "Company bosses said the severe weakening' of the US dollar during the past year had adversely affected profitability and redundancies were now necessary."

David Laws says his thoughts are with all those whose jobs are at risk. Touching. Kevin Davis has a bit of an opportunistic stab at David Laws for not doing anything about it. Of course the Tories offer no solutions other than criticising everybody else. This is the free market at work, and neither the Liberals nor the Tories have solutions, their ideology is firmly committed to the free market, being free, just like the "new" Labour leadership. The only solutions come from the left, from those that think outside of the box.

To save those jobs I would urge the bosses at the company to take a hit to their pay packets, perhaps even reduce the numbers of managers at the company, until the situation with the exchange rate improved. Profits should come after people's jobs, if the company needs to operate on razor thin profits for a while, so be it. If these were demands that the people of Yeovil got behind, maybe we could make a difference. Workers should never be first on the chopping block.