Protests Begin In Britain Against Severe Government Budget Cuts

[Turborama]

Run time: 01:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnV-1HkN-0   Posted on YouTube: October 23, 2010 By YouTube Member: AFP Views on YouTube: 25   Posted on DU: October 23, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 956

 
British trade unions held a demonstration in London in protest at the government's massive spending cuts that will cost 490,000 jobs, slash government budgets by around a fifth and take the axe to the welfare state.


This thread has a lot of good posts about what's going on there: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4582172">Protesters Break Into Government Department (Pic Heavy)

[doc03]

1. Video won't play n/t

[Turborama]

2. Damn, that's the 1st AFP one that's done that. The YouTube link works, though

Thanks for the heads up!

[doc03]

3. OK link works, looks like the Teabaggers are in charge

in the UK and France.

[Raoul]

4. In charge

of what? I see brave people taking to the streets like we should be doing here. Unless you mean the governments?

[doc03]

5. That's what I mean Teabagger types are in charge of their

governments.

[liberation]

6. Looks like you don't know what you are talking about...

... how on earth are the European left and labor movements in any way shape or form similar to the myopic racist scumbags of the American teabagging movement?

[doc03]

9. I was referring to the people in charge of their governments

that are cutting spending like the Teabaggers want to do in this country, not the people doing the protesting. I cleared that up once already.

[liberation]

12. My bad...

... my brain was slower than usual.

[Turborama]

10. I knew what you meant as soon as I read this reply. I came to that conclusion in the OP I linked to

[defendandprotect]

7. LOVE the way the French put it .... they're not paying for capitalism's corruption ...!!!

They put it a little more delicately --

but this is all just a means of doing more harm to middle class and poor -- !!

[felix_numinous]

8. K & R

People have had enough.

[southmost]

11. this will be our future here

the planned cuts the repukes are planning, will eventually push the threshold of people