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| Over 400,000 join London anti-cuts march | ||
| 2011-03-27 | ||
[Iran Press TV] Hundreds of thousands of British opposing to the coalition government's budget cuts are marching in London streets, chanting for an alternative to the government's austerity cuts.
Hundreds of people from North East traveled to London on Saturday morning to join the London protest. Demonstrators from Aberystwyth to Aberdeen and from Penzance to Perth also arrived in London to shout with the Londoners at the spending cuts. British Education Secretary Michael Gove claimed that he could understand people's anger, but "the difficulty that we have as the government inheriting a terrible economic mess is that we have to take steps to bring the public finances back into balance." Unite union's General Secretary Len McCluskey said the coalition government has exaggerated about the level of the deficit. Describing his economic plan, McCluskey said, "Our alternative is to concentrate on economic growth through tax fairness so, for example, if the government was brave enough, it would tackle the tax avoidance that robs the British taxpayer of a minimum of £25bn a year." Around 100 legal observers are monitoring the policing of the protest, and there are more representatives from other human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups on hand to offer advice to demonstrators. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 The Guardian et al. are falling all over themselves to argue that the violence of a small proportion of the demonstrators should not be allowed to overshadow the positive intent of the rest. On the other hand, if one US soldier or marine carrying a hundred pounds of gear in 120 degree weather loses it, it's wall to wall coverage of the "atrocity." |
| Posted by: Matt 2011-03-27 14:56 |
| #5 So these geniuses are protesting cuts in the size of governments? In practice, Anarchists have been allied with the Communists and even fought alongside them against Democrats and Royalists. Of course the Communists later turned on them and wiped them out, a detail not taught at uni. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-03-27 14:20 |
| #4 Tipper, any excuse to riot and break stuff is a good excuse for the anarchists... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-03-27 10:59 |
| #3 i fear that it is a preview for our summer here in the good ol' u.s. of a..... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2011-03-27 10:51 |
| #2 Labour created a welfare dependency monster to cover its massive unemployment rate. Even that wasn't enough, so they made a massive increase in the size of government, to create the illusion of jobs and lower the welfare rolls. And it's all coming to an end. This will mean massive unemployment *without* welfare, which guarantees public disturbance. The easiest way to solve this is massive deportations of foreigners, even stripping many of the naturalized aliens of their citizenship and sending them packing(*). (*) A play on words. Packing = Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-03-27 09:36 |
| #1 Update: 200 arrested as hardcore anarchists fight police long into night in Battle of Trafalgar Square after 500,000 march against the cut Anarchism Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society. So these geniuses are protesting cuts in the size of governments? They are a disgrace to the anarchists cause |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-03-27 09:18 |