I took this photo on the huge anti-austerity march in central London on June 20 organised by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, of a disabled campaigner pointing out that welfare cuts for the disabled (driven by targets, not by need) and sanctions for the unemployed (which cut all financial support to some of the country’s most vulnerable people, often for the most insignificant reasons) are leading to preventable deaths, as some of the most vulnerable people in society are driven to destitution, despair and suicide.

Although the weather was indifferent, the turnout wasn’t, and around 250,000 people marched from the Bank of England to Parliament Square to show the many, many reasons ordinary, hard-working British people have for despising the Tory government, who, in May’s General Election, won over 50% of the seats, with just over 36% of the votes, cast, and the support of less than a quarter of those eligible to vote.

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