UK anti-austerity demonstrations – live coverage
Source: The Guardian
... Our fight goes on to protect our communities, to defend the vulnerable, to expose spivs and speculators and tax avoiders...
... Supporters of Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos have attended the march in solidarity, joining a handful of people showing their support for similar movements in Greece. Andrea, a 34-year-old Spanish protestor living in London, is part of the Podemos group. What is happening here now happened four years ago in Spain, she said. In 2011, protestors from the indignados movement stayed for days in public squares like this. It showed the need for change in Spain. You should do the same!...
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jun/20/anti-austerity-demonstrations-live
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iandhr
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(2,539 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,153 posts)Stargazer99
(2,539 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)did not vote for this government.
Ironing Man
(164 posts)very little sympathy from me. registering to vote in the UK is incredibly easy and available up until just five days before election day, there's a massive, state funded, voter registration campaign everytime there's an election - infact its a criminal offence to not be registered to vote in the UK - you can vote postally or in person, and they don't close the voting stations until everyone who has queued up has voted.
morever, every single constituancy in the UK had at least one properly anti-auterity candidate, whether that was Green, TUSC or some other left wing party.
66% of those eligible to vote bothered to do so.
only third world countries sub-contract their vote counts out to private companies , in the UK its done by local council staff and volunteers.
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)thus making things easier for the Tories.
But then again, looking at the way the election went, the big problem is the uselessness of Labour. Uninspiring, unconvincing and losing votes on all sides. Labour's drift since 2010 ended up gifting the election to the Tories.
And it's only getting worse with the dross in the Labour leadership contest.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,153 posts)apart from those under 18.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,153 posts)Were here to say austerity isnt working, said Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP, to great applause from the crowd in Parliament Square at the end of the London march. Were here to say that it wasnt people on jobseekers allowance that brought down the banks.
It wasnt nurses and teachers and firefighters who were recklessly gambling on international markets. And so we should stop the policies that are making them pay for a crisis that wasnt of their making.
Marching under the banner End Austerity Now, protesters denounced public sector cuts, the treatment of the disabled and the vulnerable through welfare cuts, and the privatisation of the NHS. Teachers, nurses, lawyers and union groups marched under their own banners.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/20/tens-thousands-rally-uk-protest-against-austerity
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)why don't Americans protest?