A massive show of pissed-off force in Londontown (crowd much larger than expected)

[marmar]

"Absolutely enormous" turnout for anti-cuts march
By Alan Jones, Press Association

Saturday, 26 March 2011



A mass protest being staged today against cuts in public spending was set to be the biggest for years as more people than expected turned up to send an angry message to the Government.

The TUC had estimated that around 100,000 union activists and other campaigners would take part in today's demonstration in London, but it was clear that hundreds of thousands had made their way to the capital.

Unofficial estimates said that at least 250,000 demonstrators were packing into central London before a march had even started.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, told the Press Association that the turnout was "absolutely enormous and showed the anger of ordinary working people at the Government's cuts". ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/quotabsolutely-enormousquot-turnout-for-anticuts-march-2253791.html

[xchrom]

1. ...

:applause:

[SpiralHawk]

2. Revolution is in the air

planet wide...

[drm604]

5. Something in the Air (Because the Revolution's Here)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x561278#561754

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Fantastic - the working class is coming alive

Please check spelling in OP's subject - one of the "off"s should be "of"

[marmar]

4. Thanks manny.....

..... my spelling is a little "off" this morning. :P

[cal04]

6. Up to 400,000 rally at anti-cuts march

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/blog/2011/mar/26/march-for-the-alternative-live-updates

4.29pm: Ukuncut say that hundreds are now occupying their target, Fortnum and Masons, which they revealed half an hour ago on Twitter.

4.25pm: Journalist Bibi van der Zee has just posted on Twitter that there is a police kettle around dozens of activists who've piled inside Fortnum and Masons.

4.17pm: Jamie Kelsey, a contributing editor of the New Internationalist magazine who is at the demonstration, says that the protest is providing a political education to many young people in attendance.

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23ukuncut

[suffragette]

7. Anti-cuts march swells to 400,000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/26/anti-cuts-march-swells-400000


Anti-cuts march swells to 400,000
London hosts largest protest since Iraq war as workers and public demonstrate against government spending cuts
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 26 March 2011 13.53 GMT



Around 400,000 people have joined a march in London to oppose the coalition government's spending cuts.

In what looks like being the largest mass protest since the anti-Iraq war march in 2003, teachers, nurses, midwives, NHS, council and other public sector workers were joined by students, pensioners and direct action supporters, bringing the centre of the capital to a standstill.

Tens of thousands of people streamed along Embankment and past police barriers in Whitehall. Feeder marches, including a protest by students which set off from the University of London in Bloomsbury, swelled the crowd, which stretched back as far as St Paul's Cathedral.

The biggest union-organised event for over 20 years saw more than 800 coaches and dozens of trains hired to bring people to London, with many unable to make the journey to the capital because of the massive demand for transport.



So many wanted to attend that transport could not meet demand.

[WillyT]

8. K & R !!!

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[Starry Messenger]

9. k&r

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Yay, Brits!

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