Cameron is a cock

I took this photo outside the Houses of Parliament – by Big Ben – at the end of the huge anti-austerity march in central London on June 20 organised by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. 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.
The Tories’ austerity programme, which has involved massive cuts to the public sector and to the welfare state, including the NHS, and attacks on the unemployed and the disabled, is driven not by need but by a malignant ideology – the desire to privatise almost everything (but not their own salaries, of course) for the benefit of the private sector, often using taxpayers’ money to achieve their ends, and often benefitting them directly, as they are involved in the companies making a profit.
Although the Tories’ austerity policies have been disastrous economically, so that it has cost more to ruin the lives of millions of people than to have left them alone, the message has still not got through to the majority of the British people. I can only hope that events like this will help to wake up the millions of people who stand to have their lives further impoverished by the Tories, and who need to make a stand if we are not to descend into an increasingly divided country, with an ever-growing gulf between the rich and the poor over the next five years.
For my most recent article about austerity, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2015/06/12/photos-london-protes…
And for my most recent photos, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/sets/72157652100358663
For my archive of articles about the Tories since 2010, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/battle-for-britain-fig…
And for articles since this year’s General Election, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/battle-for-britain-fig…
For the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, see: www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/
For the Facebook page for the event, see: www.facebook.com/events/460624807433119/
Please also read the economist Paul Krugman’s article, ‘The Austerity Delusion’: www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/t…
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes…