Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts

Please bring this up again on MN nearer the time, matthias and CateOfCateHall (the March 26 demo I mean). Then if we are looking at MN around then, we might be goaded into action, if reading about it in the general press hasn't spurrred us on.

It would be FAB to see a million on the streets!

Good luck with it

The aim is to get a million of us opposed to the current actions of the Government on the streets of London on March 26th. I'm hoping to be there. From what I gather it will be a family friendly occasion.
marchforthealternative.org.uk/

there is a TUC march against the cuts on March 26th. TUC is just the organiser - personally I feel that anyone who dislikes the current actions of the government should be there to protest.

Currently I am shocked and saddened by the decision to sell public woodlands into private ownership. We own this land as a people and the government literally has no right to do this in our name - it is as though someone could sell your home without your consent. At the very least there should be a public referendum on the decision.

So please, if you feel strongly about any of the currently policies - from education- health - or the woodlands go and march on the 26th- for details - TUC website

New wave, I am confused that you are preventing cruelty to foxes, but applaud cruelty to horses?

So you want foxes to live, but horses must die simply because they are ridden by the Police?

I am struggling to get my head around this - cruelty is cruelty, regardless of class wars, political divides, or police enjoying willy waving and baton waving.

Most coppers are lousy riders anyway, just get your shoulder under the stirrup and push UP if you want to stop them.

Not that I am recommending that of course...

Kaloki. Yes they do.

Kingsnorth Power station playing earsplitting music all night and were found to have broken the law themselves. Claiming over fifty injuries which were shown to have nothing at all to do with the protesters (bee stings and one who hurt himself climbing a fence etc)

Claiming there were not undercover plod agent provocateurs amongst the student protesters and then they were found to be lying.

Undercover plod who admit they have acted as agent provocateurs.

Kettling people and then charging them with horses for no reason.

Peach, Tomlinson and the lad with the fractured skull (who they tried to bar from receiving hospital treatment).

Yes, the plod provoke violence

Kaloki, Two wrongs just might ensure you are not another victim of Police thuggery. Remember to Police go out of their way to provoke violence.

I have first hand knowledge of the Police turning a blind eye to violence when i was a hunt sabber, I watched a hunt follower hit a guy across the face with a riding crop with plod watching, when asked to arrest the hunt follower he claimed he had seen none of it, when called a liar he threatened to arrest people for obstructing the Police.

People on protests have to protect themselves from Police violence, ask Peach and Tomlinson.

well said, Kaloki

claig, I have never called anyone on this site scum not even LFN, that is always aimed at Tory MP's and the government.

I do however think Tory voters are selfish for reasons I have given on many occassions.

You do try to twist things dont you.

I'm against all violence.

I'm glad you only think I am obtuse and not scum, as you think so many other people are.

craig, sometimes I think your obtuse and at other times i am sure of it.

please note the "violence" is in quotes, throwing flour bombs and stink bombs at the Police is ok with me. I am also ok with rolling marbles under Police horses hooves if they are charging towards me as well.

Are you against Police violence as well or is that ok with you.

I'm anti violence, whether it is in quotes or not.

Craig, please note the "violence" is in quotes, throwing flour bombs and stink bombs at the Police is ok with me.

I will leave the real violence to the Police as they are the experts, lets hope we dont have another Blair Peach or Tomlinson and God forbid no one ends up with a fractured skull compliments of a thug in uniform.

Charlie and camila get a fright and every plod is on the case, a kid gets his skull fractured and the plod do nothing. Tomlinson gets killed by a copper and it gets swept under the carpet.

Newwave...why were you mugged by Clegg? He went into the election stating that if there was no clear result he would talk first to the party with the most votes and the most seats...and that's what he did.

Yes and he rejected a rise in student fees and VAT and wanted a slower pace for debt reduction, I know he had to compromise but he did not compromise he capitulated to everything the Tories wanted.

The pupil premium he boasts about was not new money just moving the existing money about, have you noticed he has not mentioned it since he was caught out.

This is not a coalition it is a Tory lead government.

Brad, I think the OP was responding to newwave's post, where newwave said that she hopes there is trouble.

The odd response to my previous post by op.

I still hope the protests go well.

claig, it wouldnt suprise me, i often do wonder where the government gets their ideas from, and how they possibly think they can justify bringing in the laws, making the cuts and rising the costs of daily living. HOwever with the cuts & raises there comes to pay rises or further help to help us afford the daily life.

Un-employment will go up in the near future and fraud will become a thing done just to get by. It worries me for the future of my kids it really does.

Bradd why the ?

Violence plays right into the hands of the state. The state always has more power than a violent mob. The media focuses on damage by the mob, but not on injuries to protesters. The public turn against the mob. That's how the students end up losing support. The media invites on socialist/anarchists with "Tory scum" written on their shirts, talking of revolution, and then sits back and waits for the public to turn against the student cause.

Heather Mills was on Andrew Neil's 'This Week' show a few weeks back. She is a millionaire and she supports the students. One of her friends went on the march. She was against violence, and wondered who the people causing violence were. She wondered if they were agent-provacateurs.

hammer - If i were a real witch i would be sure to cast a few spells in directions which would sort many a problem out!

Actually claig, I don't think it's true that peaceful protests achieve more than violent ones. Sadly.

I'm very conflicted about it. I hate violence, and am intrinsically a nice, law-abiding headgirl type. But I also read my history. We remember Gandhi's peaceful protests precisely because they were so unusual.

But I'm not expecting trouble tomorrow. We'll all be too knackered.