Anti-austerity Protests Against The Tories In London (Photos & Video) - Updated

[Turborama]

Last edited Sat May 9, 2015, 10:27 PM - Edit history (1)

No media coverage as yet, probably won't be any. These photos (and more) are getting shared like crazy on FB and Twitter, though. I'll add more when I find them...






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Press TV have posted this video on their FB page:

WATCH: London, scene of anti-Tories rally: https://www.facebook.com/PRESSTV/videos/vb.145097112198751/913009652074156/?type=2&theater

Thousands of protesters have marched on the Conservatives' campaign HQ, parliament, Downing Street and are now marching through central London.

Find out more: http://ptv.io/1rvJ

There's definitely something happening here...

[villager]

1. I wonder how long it will take until Tory overreach forces Scotland to make an actual break?

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The obverse of the Liberals in this election is the Scottish National Party (SNP). Every tendency in advanced post-democracy is being reversed in Scotland, where working-class electoral participation and party membership is rising, not falling.

The SNP took fifty-six seats, up from six in 2010. The tsunami-like proportions of this wipe-out may be exaggerated by the electoral system, but the swing is huge and signifies something far deeper than a shift in voter identifications or, god help us, a “protest vote.” Old right-wing Labour stalwarts like Tom Harris vaguely understand that since the referendum for Scottish independence, something at the deepest strata of Scottish working-class consciousness shifted. But he doesn’t get what shifted, or why.

The reality is that the referendum’s No coalition signified everything that was wrong with Westminster politics: all the main parties in it together, on the side of militarism and the multinationals. Despite Gordon Brown’s absurd “big beast” posturing, despite all the talk of the “UK pension” and the “UK NHS,” Labour attacked independence from the Right, from a position of loyalty to the state, to the war machine, and to the neoliberal doctrines of the civil service.

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/labour-miliband-conservatives-british-elections/

[Turborama]

2. Lots of updates here on this Twitter feed...

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ToriesOutNow?src=hash

[Nye Bevan]

3. Aren't they about 3 days late with this? (nt)

[Turborama]

4. Police brutality, England style (Video)

Here: http://bambuser.com/v/5499931

[socialist_n_TN]

5. Ah! The Tories have imported the American method of winning elections I see.......

Voter suppression and outright fraud. I've got some comrades at this shindig. I hope they stay safe, but it's important to them and they know the dangers.

[Turborama]

6. More photos...

[roamer65]

7. Just wait until the SNP fires it up in Westminster.

Alex Salmond is a straight shooting honest politician and won't back down.

I think most Britons will want to vote for the SNP when all is said and done.