The latest edition of Red Pepper provides useful ammunition in the campaign to defend public services:
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Countering-the-cuts-myths? The concise analysis systematically debunks the 10 key myths used by those politicians and other vested interests who claim that the UK is in the grip of a debt crisis caused by the ‘bloated’ public sector and that the only solution is massive cuts in jobs and public services.