Stop The Cuts - 26 March rally in London

20 March 2011

From across the country, Green Party members will gather at Hyde Park in London on the 26th March to join with hundreds of thousands of others to protest against the cutbacks by the coalition government.

Green Party activists will assemble at Temple and Embankment areas of Victoria Embankment, from 9am. Our Hyde Park stall will be set up from noon onwards.

Instead of cutting public services, we can tackle the deficit in other ways:

- Increase taxes for the very wealthiest

- Clamp down on the billions lost through tax evasion and tax avoidance

- Introduce a financial transaction tax - Robin Hood Tax

- No more expensive PFI schemes that are bad value for money

- Cancel unnecessary road building - £3 billion a year

- Scrap the Trident nuclear weapons programme - £4 billion a year

- Bring our troops home from Afghanistan - £7 million a day

Romayne Phoenix, national campaigns coordinator for the Green Party, said: "Labour started the patchwork privatisation of the NHS, introduced the school academies programme and tuition fees, and the coalition government is going even further. The tragedy is that a million people will be thrown out of work, at a time when we need a million more jobs to tackle climate change and provide clean, affordable energy supplies for our future."

For more information on the march: http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/

 

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