LETTER: Message of TUC demonstration
Somewhere between half and one million people turned out to voice their opposition to the ConDem government policy of wholesale attacks on public services, and to support an alternative.
An opinion poll conducted in advance of the demonstration showed 52% support for its aim. Policies combining strengthening public services and introducing fair taxation make far more sense than the current ones, that are designed solely to benefit the bankers and financiers that landed us in this economic mess in the first place.
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Hide AdWhy should ordinary working people have to pay for the bankers’ short sightedness and greed? Incidentally, the activities of the minority of anarchists in London are not entirely without precedent, as the following quotation illustrates: “We got drunk, trashed the Ritz and then went down Piccadilly to loot a few items from Fortnums”.
This is taken from London Mayor Boris Johnson’s autobiography, in reference to the Bullingdon Club, 1986.
ROGER BANNISTER