Price range, Mugabe & Turkish Gays: Wednesday 22 November 2017 was Price range Day and as ordinary there have been protests round Parliament, and I photographed individuals protesting about Brexit, housing, scholar charges and the NHS. Exterior the Zibabwe Embassy there have been individuals celebrating the resignation of President Mugabe, whereas individuals got here to the Turkish Embassy in a protest in opposition to a ban on LGBTI cultural occasions in Ankara.
Price range Day Brexit Protests – Outdated Palace Yard
The same old Remainers had come to protest with some new Price range Day slogans, ‘What’s the Price range for Brexit’ and the punning ‘Brexit spreads Sheet In all places’, a reference to Chancellor Philip Hammond’s nickname ‘Spreadsheet Phil’. New unbiased evaluation printed in 2024 tells us that Brexit has price the British economic system virtually £140 billion.
That they had EU flags and likewise that curiously discreet signal of misery, the upside-down Union Jack (for pedants Union Flag). The opposing Brexiteers accused them of being unaware of which manner as much as fly the flag.
Political artist Kaya Mar joined them briefly maintain his portray of the Chancellor sitting on a floating mine along with his pc holding up a sinking Theresa Might because the ship of Britain sinks within the background.
Price range Day Brexit Protests
Properties for All Price range and Others – Parliament Sq.
Housing campaigners from varied teams had come to a protest known as by ‘Properties For All‘ demanding the federal government decide to constructing extra houses to be let at social rents. After a protracted rally in Parliament Sq. they marched briefly to Downing Avenue.
The housing disaster is worst for the poorest in society however virtually all of the schemes introduced in by governments this century have been aimed toward subsiding these on center incomes to develop into house homeowners. In addition to not constructing social housing there had been a failure to herald the rules wanted to manage the non-public rental sector to supply larger safety of tenure, management rents and guarantee properties are saved in liveable situation. Maybe as a result of many MPs are additionally landlords.
Solely a programme that permits native authorities to borrow cash and construct house can ship housing at a value that these on decrease incomes can afford to reside in – and that also present a very good return on investments – they level out that by 2010-2011 councils have been paying greater than £700 million to authorities in surpluses from council housing.
In addition to attacking the federal government’s document on housing additionally they blamed the Labour Celebration for permitting Labour councils to demolish council housing and mixing with builders and housing associations to supply new housing at market costs, unaffordable so known as “reasonably priced’ properties and and excessive rents with out long-term safety of tenure.
They identified the necessity for presidency funding for mandatory hearth security work to keep away from one other Grenfell catastrophe together with the alternative of harmful cladding on all tall blocks, the enforcement of fireside rules and a return to correct hearth security inspections which had been deserted as pointless ‘pink tape’.
New Labour and London Labour Councils have been blamed for demolishing council housing and mixing with builders and housing associations to supply new housing with an amazing discount in properties at social rents, with houses on the market at market costs, unaffordable so known as “reasonably priced‘ properties and at excessive market rents with out long-term safety of tenure.
A speaker from Haringey informed us the Labour council is freely giving £2 billion of council property to a non-public developer who will construct properties the present council tenants and leaseholders will be unable to afford – with a small quantity of high-priced ‘reasonably priced properties‘. Like on earlier schemes he was assured the builders will get accountants to rearrange the books and get them out of most of their obligations to incorporate low-cost social housing. Opposition to the scheme led to some Labour councillors shedding their seats and the plans being stopped, although the long run remained unclear.
In School Inexperienced there have been just a few individuals with placards calling for larger funding for the NHS who would even have been upset by the funds. A few of them got here to hitch the housing rally, as additionally did some who had come to protest in opposition to the cuts and scholar charges.
There was additionally a person with a bell and placards about public debt, although it wasn’t fairly clear precisely why he thought ‘The Finish Is Nigh’.
Extra on My London Diary at Properties for All Price range protest.
Zimbabweans rejoice Mugabe’s resignation – Strand
Zimbabweans had come to the London embassy the place that they had been protesting each week for over 15 years to rejoice the resignation of President Mugabe.
However though there was a lot dancing and singing with joyful delight at his going that they had no belief in his possible successor Emmerson Mnangagwa. Common protests nonetheless proceed on the Embassy and so they have vowed they’ll proceed till there are free and honest elections in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans rejoice Mugabe’s resignation
Protest at Turkish LGBTI+ ban – Turkish Embassy
Protesters met on the Turkish Embassy in Belgrave Sq. to learn an announcement in solidarity with Turkish LGBTI+ individuals after Turkey final Sunday imposed an indefinite ban on all LGBTI+ cultural occasions in its capital, Ankara.
They are saying the ban is against the law, homophobic and transphobic and which they are saying dangers criminalising LGBTI existence and endangering public security and that it’s based mostly on an extremist Islamic morality and violates the Turkish structure.
Homosexuality has been authorized in Turkey because the final half of the century underneath the Ottoman Empire and underneath the trendy Turkish Republic which got here into existence in 1923.
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