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TUC March for the Alternative Manchester Oct 2011

Stalingrad O'Neill | 08.10.2011 03:26 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Birmingham

They may have come in their thousands to tell the coalition government "cuts are not the cure".
Unfortunately they were met by Dr TUC’s quack medicine wagon and patented Labour party elixir

Salford against the cuts Banner
Salford against the cuts Banner

Demo Assembly point Liverpool Road Manchester
Demo Assembly point Liverpool Road Manchester

Construction worker Irish Diaspora
Construction worker Irish Diaspora

Not if bringing the Tory Coalition down means reinstalling tosspot Labour
Not if bringing the Tory Coalition down means reinstalling tosspot Labour

Samlesbury Joint Shop Stewards Committee at Demo
Samlesbury Joint Shop Stewards Committee at Demo

The Living Dead Bankers, bloodsucking leaches on the back of the working class!
The Living Dead Bankers, bloodsucking leaches on the back of the working class!

Ban Blood sports
Ban Blood sports

Domestic Worker contingent on the Demo
Domestic Worker contingent on the Demo

Mother and son
Mother and son

Dastardly Huntsabs hell bent on ruining nob's glorious sport 'n pleasure Tragic!
Dastardly Huntsabs hell bent on ruining nob's glorious sport 'n pleasure Tragic!

Women asylum seekers contingent on march
Women asylum seekers contingent on march

Swat Police team on roof of Barbirolli, Manchester
Swat Police team on roof of Barbirolli, Manchester

Town Hall protest Manchester
Town Hall protest Manchester

Torys outted by an irate converging breakaway contingent beat a hasty retreat to
Torys outted by an irate converging breakaway contingent beat a hasty retreat to

Last Tory in negotiates a flying bottle
Last Tory in negotiates a flying bottle

Increasingly angry Demo breakaway group lay siege to the bolted Hall door entran
Increasingly angry Demo breakaway group lay siege to the bolted Hall door entran

Police detachment move to position to prevent any actual assault on Bridgewater
Police detachment move to position to prevent any actual assault on Bridgewater

Nob grinning inanely and looking out from the security of Bridgewater Hall
Nob grinning inanely and looking out from the security of Bridgewater Hall

Demo marchers not interested his Tory cuts claptrap heckling Labour MP Tony Lloy
Demo marchers not interested his Tory cuts claptrap heckling Labour MP Tony Lloy

At the rally point Number One First Street, Manchester
At the rally point Number One First Street, Manchester


I notice these days the mention of voting Labour back into power is rather slyly vocalized the Platform are acutely aware of the ire and contempt the protesters hold for the Labour leadership Instead you get the nod and wink from the platform with idiots like Len McCluskey giving useless long winded lectures on how “Voters were becoming increasingly angry, as deeper cuts did more and more harm to the economy” never quite spelling out how Labour have every bit as much intention to shit on the workers and taxpayers if returned, whilst the crowd were treated to Lee Jasper attempting to work them like an evangelical preacher with his Tory this and Tory that! Praise the lord!……

Well it may have mesmerized those few hundred around the stage setting but elsewhere, the 35,000 who had taken part had already dispersed to go shopping, chill or generally do their own thing, anything but listen to the clap trap from the platform

So with a cacophony of condemnations regarding Tory cut policies beating like a trance rhythm floating on the wind to the back of the rally Labour MP Tony Lloyd was introduced as a really sound grounded guy and not one of those support the cuts unfortunately he had little else to say ‘cept to heap blame on the Tories ! Still every time he bleated about the Tories cutting this or that, some protesters with a megaphone opened up with “what about Labour” and the heckling continued through his entire speech…

Sadly it seems not everyone thought him a sound well grounded guy

A bright spot along the march happened when a group of protesters spotted a bunch of Tory nobs gawking at the passing demo, an irate breakaway contingent converged on the Tories threatening to engulf them requiring them to beat a hasty retreat to the safety of Bridgewater Hall where upon an increasingly angry group lay siege to the bolted Hall door entrance Some idiot ‘I am your leader with the megaphone’ tried to disperse the group with the futile refrain “These are not Tories, they are catering workers, please rejoin the parade ” to no avail A detachment of cops were dispatched and maneuvered themselves into position’ to prevent any actual assault on Bridgewater Hall
I think the blue ties were a dead giveaway and they were further condemned by the one wearing the blue bootlace ribbon attached to his ID card which is inscribed with the legend www.windsor.co.uk.

Windsor Partners Limited is a Lloyd's broking group providing insurance and reinsurance broking services to businesses and private individuals in the United Kingdom and overseas.

All told the cops on the march and in general were rather friendly, it was even commentated on by the BBC’s Lucy Ewing ‘at the scene’ but then I guess, not surprisingly the Bill have an eye to their own pension differentials. However there was the not so friendly and rather chilling police presence on the roof of the Barbirolli which our not so eagle eyed ‘Dear’ Lucy failed to notice

Stalingrad O'Neill
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  1. No solidarity for BAE workers — anarchist
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  3. Sorry — Stalingrad O'Neill
  4. agree with anarchist — timebomb
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