Why am I going on the No More Austerity demo in London on June 21, 2014? Because I’m angry, that’s why. The whole country united to pay tribute to the heroism of our D-Day services and back-up people in turning the war in our favour. Against a national deficit far higher than now, our grandparents then built a national health service, public services and a welfare state to protect the worst off and those who needed help.
Why am I angry? Because 70 years later we have a government systematically destroying support for the most vulnerable; starving the NHS of funding and privatising chunks of it; selling off the Royal Mail and with it the guarantee of a national service delivering everywhere; stigmatising claimants entitled to disability and other benefits as scroungers, and the list goes on.
If you share my anger, join Russell Brand, the Enfield Alliance Against the Cuts and many, many more outside the BBC HQ , Portland Place, London W1 1AA to Demand the Alternative 1pm Saturday 21 June 2014. There’s a free festival and march to Parliament.
Reverse the cuts, invest in people and a living wage, tax the rich. That would be a good start.
Chris Kaufman
Enfield Alliance Against the Cuts
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