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Marcus Wrote:

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> Anyone going?


Thought about it then I looked at this "Austerity" thing. Soon realised that it's like having over-binged on a credit card and then having to pay off the debt later.


Brown and Balls binged on borrowing from 2002 to 2010. This debt doesn't even start to get paid off until the budget balances. So more austerity to come whether we whinge or not.


One way to reduce the effects of austerity is to slash overseas aid and spend the money here in the UK instead.


The UK will spend ?11.4 billion in overseas aid this year! Now that is real money.


I'd much rather protest about that.

philosophie Wrote:

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> It was brilliant, such a warm and positive vibe.

> This is about where the cuts are targeted. 120

> billion in corporate tax avoidance and yet the

> poor and vulnerable always incur the penalty.


Can you name and shame some of them with the amounts they avoid/evade. That way I can target my protesting.

Loz Wrote:

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> Was it crowded? Organisers have claimed that 478

> trillion billion squazillion people attended. The

> police counted 18 people and a budgerigar.


The police always understate on these occasions; it was actually a hyacinthine macaw. ;)


I can't do marches but other day to day activism in support of social justice is incredibly important (remember this government only has a tiny majority) and can have the same or an even greater effect.

philosophie Wrote:

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> It was brilliant, such a warm and positive vibe.

> This is about where the cuts are targeted. 120

> billion in corporate tax avoidance and yet the

> poor and vulnerable always incur the penalty.



So glad it was such a warm and positive vibe, it's only cost us all a couple of million, still, if you feel warm and fuzzy it must have been worth it....

I was there yesterday and it was a great day but I agree with Otta. The government don't care.


The only good thing is that the majority is so silm. They were actually better off under coalition (70 seat majority I think? ish). The way to fight back will be to lobby tory backbenchers bill by bill (Cameron already lost the first vote re EU referendum).

I agree with Green Goose...and Mr Micawber ("Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." )

uncleglen Wrote:

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> I agree with Green Goose...and Mr Micawber

> ("Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure

> nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.

> Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure

> twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." )


This countries been miserable for a long time then.

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