{"id":4285,"date":"2014-06-22T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T10:41:39","slug":"tens-of-thousands-march-in-london-against-coalitions-austerity-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/06\/22\/tens-of-thousands-march-in-london-against-coalitions-austerity-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands march in London against coalition&#8217;s austerity measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A bit of bother as the <a title=\"People\u2019s Assembly demo in London \u2013 tens of thousands matching for a just and equal society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/06\/21\/peoples-assembly-demo-in-london-tens-of-thousands-matching-for-a-just-and-equal-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a> have only reported this a day late after complaints<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>\/\/<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/395504723842517\/permalink\/726315110761475\/\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevinarmes\">Kevin Armes<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevinarmes?fref=nf\">Kevin Armes<\/a><i><\/i>\u200e<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/395504723842517\/?fref=nf\">A letter a day to No 10 &#8211; Keith Ordinary Guy.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Works at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Self-employed-writer\/557944904271007\">Self-employed writer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a032 followers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/395504723842517\/permalink\/726315110761475\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><abbr title=\"Sunday, 22 June 2014 at 10:02\">1 hr<\/abbr><\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<a id=\"u_1o_e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#\"><i><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"id_53a6b08ed1c2e3606218383\">\n<p>I just called the BBC on 02087438000 and spoke to a nice chap who said he&#8217;d been inundated with calls about the Austerity Demo yesterday. He seemed generally interested to know why he was getting so many calls on a normally quiet Sunday morning so I explained the reason was that the BBC had failed to report anywhere, on TV or their websites, that 50,000 people started this march outside the BBC&#8217;s London office. He gave me the number for Audience Services 03700100222 who answe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#\">See More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a title=\"Like this\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#\">Like<\/a><a title=\"Like this\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#\">Like<\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<a title=\"Leave a comment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/395504723842517\/permalink\/726315110761475\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comment<\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<a title=\"Send this to friends or post it on your timeline.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/395504723842517\/permalink\/726315110761475\/\">Share<\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/395504723842517\/permalink\/726315110761475\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><\/i>81<i><\/i>29<i><\/i>17<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/jun\/21\/protest-march-austerity-london-russell-brand-peoples-assembly\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardianBLACK.png?resize=140%2C45\" alt=\"Powered by Guardian.co.uk\" width=\"140\" height=\"45\" \/>This article titled &#8220;Tens of thousands march in London against coalition&#8217;s austerity measures&#8221; was written by Kevin Rawlinson and agencies, for theguardian.com on Saturday 21st June 2014 19.45 UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday afternoon in protest at austerity measures introduced by the coalition government. The demonstrators gathered before the Houses of Parliament, where they were addressed by speakers, including comedians Russell Brand and Mark Steel.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 50,000 people marched from the BBC&#8217;s New Broadcasting House in central London to Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of this building [the House of Commons] generally speaking do not represent us, they represent their friends in big business. It&#8217;s time for us to take back our power,&#8221; said Brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be a peaceful, effortless, joyful revolution and I&#8217;m very grateful to be involved in the People&#8217;s Assembly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Power isn&#8217;t there, it is here, within us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The revolution that&#8217;s required isn&#8217;t a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the People&#8217;s Assembly, which organised the march, said the turnout was &#8220;testament to the level of anger there is at the moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Saturday&#8217;s action was &#8220;just the start&#8221;, with a second march planned for October in conjunction with the Trades Union Congress, as well as strike action expected next month.<\/p>\n<p>People&#8217;s Assembly spokesman Clare Solomon said: &#8220;It is essential for the welfare of millions of people that we stop austerity and halt this coalition government dead in its tracks before it does lasting damage to people&#8217;s lives and our public services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sam Fairburn, the group&#8217;s national secretary, added: &#8220;Cuts are killing people and destroying cherished public services which have served generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Activists from the Stop The War Coalition and CND also joined the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>The crowds heard speeches at Parliament Square from People&#8217;s Assembly supporters, including Caroline Lucas MP and journalist Owen Jones. Addressing the marchers, Jones said: &#8220;Who is really responsible for the mess this country is in? Is it the Polish fruit pickers or the Nigerian nurses? Or is it the bankers who plunged it into economic disaster \u2013 or the tax avoiders? It is selective anger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The Conservatives are using the crisis to push policies they have always supported. For example, the sell-off of the NHS. They have built a country in which most people who are in poverty are also in work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The People&#8217;s Assembly was set up with an open letter to the Guardian in February 2013. Signatories to letter included Tony Benn, who died in March this year, journalist John Pilger and filmmaker Ken Loach.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, they wrote: &#8220;This is a call to all those millions of people in Britain who face an impoverished and uncertain year as their wages, jobs, conditions and welfare provision come under renewed attack by the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assembly will provide a national forum for anti-austerity views which, while increasingly popular, are barely represented in parliament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan police refused to provide an estimate. A police spokesman said the force had received no reports of arrests.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the prime minister declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>guardian.co.uk &#169; Guardian News &amp; Media Limited 2010<\/p>\n<p>Published via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/open-platform\/news-feed-wordpress-plugin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guardian plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian News Feed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/the-guardian-news-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wordress plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">plugin<\/a> for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- END GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 50,000 people in London addressed by speakers, including Russell Brand, after People&#8217;s Assembly march<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,79,26,54,99,97,57,100,102,96,94,101,77,98,45,311,75,95,66,46],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-article","tag-austerity","tag-business","tag-conservatives","tag-culture","tag-david-cameron","tag-economics","tag-ken-loach","tag-kevin-rawlinson","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-liberal-conservative-coalition","tag-london","tag-news","tag-nhs","tag-politics","tag-public-sector-cuts","tag-public-services-policy","tag-russell-brand","tag-society","tag-uk-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-177","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":143780,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/06\/23\/austerity-is-a-psychological-attack-on-the-disabled\/","url_meta":{"origin":4285,"position":0},"title":"Austerity is a psychological attack on the disabled","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6229,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/03\/06\/eddie-izzard-locks-horns-with-landlords-over-chelsea-social-housing-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":4285,"position":1},"title":"Eddie Izzard locks horns with landlords over Chelsea social housing estate","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Comedian targets \u2018moneyocracy\u2019 by fighting Affinity Sutton\u2019s plans to replace 144 low-rent homes at William Sutton Estate with luxury apartments","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Powered by Guardian.co.uk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardianBLACK.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10685,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/05\/22\/non-reversible-austerity-future-imperfect\/","url_meta":{"origin":4285,"position":2},"title":"Non-reversible &#8216;austerity&#8217; 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