UK Uncut to hold anti-cuts protests

Anti-cuts campaigners will target the “architects of austerity” this weekend by blocking roads and holding street parties as part of a campaign to “celebrate” resistance to the UK government’s austerity measures.

“We plan to block roads and hold street parties that, instead of celebrating the jubilee, will celebrate public services and a future decided by the people, not big business and a cabinet of millionaires,” the UK Uncut group said in a statement.

In addition to holding demonstrations in London, Manchester and Nottingham, hundreds of protestors including public sector workers, musicians and comedians, are also expected to target the Sheffield constituency office of the UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Moreover, gathering at four meeting points in central London, the anti-cuts activists will criticize the Tory-led government’s handling of the National Health Service (NHS) and welfare system.

“David Cameron has called on the country to celebrate the Jubilee with the ‘mother of all our parties’, while at the same time his government is cutting our welfare, our NHS, our rights, dismantling our future,” said UK Uncut supporter Hannah Waters.

“Our street parties will bring the message home that these cuts are a political choice, a choice that is theirs, not ours, and we reject it.”

UK Uncut started in October 2010 in a move to attack Vodafone for its refusal to pay £6bn tax while paying a £6bn dividend to its shareholders.

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