Posted on 06/20/2015 4:35:16 PM PDT by RightGeek
End austerity: it’s cheating us all; Jobs not Trident; No cuts; Defy Tory rule; Cut war not welfare; Stop fracking; a Living Wage for mothers; and, The Pope gets it, why can’t you? With the slogans emblazoned on banners, posters and flags, anti-austerity marchers shouted slogans, sang, and beat drums, as they walked through London in what is being called the biggest protest march that the city has seen.
The ‘End Austerity Now’ demonstration saw participation by an estimated crowd of between 70,000 and 250,000, all coming together to protest against cuts imposed due to austerity, the threats to the National Health Service, the privatisation of public services and Tory economic policy.
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Called by the Peoples Assembly against Austerity, an umbrella organisation that has united unions, church groups, citizen organisations, charities and others, the march was addressed by union leaders, politicians and celebrities, all of them calling for the end to the welfare cuts that the Conservative government has announced it will be making.
Amongst those who addressed the gathering at Parliament Square were Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness; Coronation Street actor Julie Hesmondhalgh; Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn; general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey; Green Party MP Caroline Lucas; comedian Russell Brand; singer Charlotte Church; national secretary of the People’s Assembly Against Austerity Sam Fairbairn; and Lindsey German from Stop The War Coalition.
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Now if they’d act against their non-assimilating guest worker problem (like the one over here), that might do something. Then again, it’s probably too “nationalist” for them to save their own country.
and don’t forget to pay your TV tax!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
Britain cut defense spending after WWI and 22 years later the Germans were bombing London! We did the same and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor!
The first German bomb on British Soil, August 12, 1940.
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Neither Britain or the United States has been attacked when we are strong. It is only happens at times of military weakness.
and don’t forget to pay your TV tax!
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We have taxes just as stupid. My little village, (population 1600) taxes individual cell phones - because they can. I have 5 cell phones on my plan and everyone is taxed the local tax, including the one I pay for for my elderly mother, who lives in a different area code and lives in a different state.
That would just be a UKIP/racist/white privilege position to take, obviously! /s
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