A Lovely day out in London at the TUC March...Sat 20th Oct 2012..

[Cidersomerset]

Hi all I attended yesterdays TUC rally in London and it was a well organised peacefull
noisy ,cheerfull well stewarded/policed event with thousands of men woman & Children
marching banners flowing protesting against the governments austerity programme..

I got up 5.30 am and met 18 union and anti nuclear activists at Brigwater bus
station and we left for London at 6.30 am.This was the first union march I have been
on and it was my mate Nick who persuaded me to go as a favour to him , and as
it was my day off, i thought I 'd go for the experiance as I'm am a CWU member.

We stopped for a break at Heston services on the way up and arrived in london
at about 10 am , we parked up and walked along the Thames, picking up a river
ferry organised free by the TUC , taking us up to Blackfriers past the houses of
parliement and other sites to the assembly point for the rally..

Me and Nick joined the march near the front and as we set off it was a colourfull
site and very well behaved as we passed thru the city of westminster and passed many
iconic land marks,statues and buildings. When we got up by Trafalger square
we left the procession and watched it pass for well over an hour until the rest of
our party came by, in front of the Firebrigades group led by some pipes and drums.
Dave our shop steward was enjoying their renditions of protest tunes.

We did see the activist group of aprox 50 protestors , who were not part of the
official union protestors and were peacefull and noisy as they passed chanting
its 'Time for the revolution ' and there was no violence or incidents with the
police any of us witnessed.

We ended up in Hyde park, for a few minutes before making our way back to
the coach park and left London about five thirty arriving back home 9pmish
'knackered out' ..LOL..We did not listen to the political B.S...but had a lively
discussion on the way back about the day and allsorts of other subjects and
I was trying to get Dave ,Nick and some of the other to see the bigger
geopolitical picture , with mixed success.

Dave in his sixties and a political left wing activist and great shop steward
and a wonderfull man who loves representing his fellow workers and
many other causes. Just could not get past 'The Reptiles' when i brought
in David Ickes work into the bigger picture, even when I pointed out it
was only a fraction of the material. Which showed me we have a long way to go
but it was fun......


These six protestors were on our coach , they are protesting the building of Hinkly 'C'
nuclear powerstation , being built outside our town !! Bless um !

http://static2.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/1500-6/photos/1350759582-protest-against-austerity-and-for-climate-justice--london_1535956.jpg

http://www.demotix.com/news/1535997/protest-against-austerity-and-climate-justice-london/all-media


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TUC Future That Works march begins in London sat 20th Oct 2012..

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Published on 20 Oct 2012 by TheGuardian

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Thousands of unionists and fellow marchers begin their protest against government cuts in central London on October 20 2012

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Even RT who I like went with this incident , which though true was not representative
of 99.9999% percent of working people who attended the march!!


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Published on 20 Oct 2012 by RussiaToday


Hundreds of protesters broke away from a huge anti-austerity demonstration in London on Saturday, and attempted to storm various multi-national companies on Oxford Street, in the West End central shopping district.

The breakaway protest finished at Trafalgar Square around 1600GMT, after two hours of running skirmishes with the police.

Saturday's march was against the latest austerity cuts proposed by the UK government. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Central London in support of the protest, organised by the TUC (Trades Union Congress) - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/o09nw8

[Cidersomerset]

This is from Channel fours website.....Usual political B.S,from Ed Milliband...

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[Rog]

I'm no econ major or anyone with any sense of the ins and outs of euro policies. But am I one of the few people who actually agrees with austerity? I don't need to be schooled on any level of the manipulation by and agenda of our worldly/galactic neighbors but to me all of the protesting around the world involving the fall-out of our economies is evidence that all of those people are clueless about real world causes and effects.

Nothing in the economies happened overnight. All that came overnight was the awareness of everyday people living in la-la land finally turning around and paying attention to some facet of how our economies actually work. Ron paul alone criticized almost every move made in America atleast for nearly a decade. How many people in American occupy movements ever followed any of that? How many at this point in hindsight are even aware that it was all spelled out, and everyone equally bought in, rich and poor? How many of these kids(my "peers") are just trying to by a ticket to "the 60s"?

I'm no shill, and I've never known wealth and privilege, but I'm here to play to win. And all of this crap to me is just excuses and distractions. Whining by children who bit off more than they could chew of something they weren't even looking at when they put it in their mouth. If you think austerity is so unfair, then please take a minute and meditate on the struggles of your ancestors and the lack of the privilege any of them ever had. Or just how "fair" life is for anything that's alive.

The poorest and most maimed mind in the world exists with so much more privilege than the majority of people ever had in known history. And yet instead of "godding" up, so many are still looking for their boogey-man to blame their own irresponsiblity on.

You don't have to be rich to have your hand in the cookie-jar of ****ing the world up.

[Cidersomerset]

I'm no econ major or anyone with any sense of the ins and outs of euro policies. But am I one of the few people who actually agrees with austerity? I don't need to be schooled on any level of the manipulation by and agenda of our worldly/galactic neighbors but to me all of the protesting around the world involving the fall-out of our economies is evidence that all of those people are clueless about real world causes and effects.

Nothing wrong with austerity as long as it is for all and not the 99%.......Not many rich bas----'s pay for the criminal running of western economies over the last few decades.
Money was pumped into all economies in the form of credit, buy now pay tommorrow to stimulate economies to buy cheap goods from the emerging third world at inflated
proffits for the corporate world. This was predicted to happen 40 years ago , when industry was being removed from the UK and later the US first to poorer European
countries then Asia and south America and latterly to China. The corporates created this as they knew as wages and standard of living grew . there proffits dropped so did
share holder dividends thus over the last few decades , they moved production for lower costs to maxamise proffits and the rich have always been the main share holders.


How much have the Bush , Chainys, Blairs and all the other criminal elites proffited from the 'War on Terror ' the 'banksters' speculate fortunes on the market everday and were
let to run wild. All the major criminals are in the 'City' wearing collar and ties .....The poor/working class and now the middle class are always the first to feel the cuts.

[Cidersomerset]

This vid shows the peacefull atmosphere I witnessed during the march !!


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