Tories Out March – 1st July 2017: 5 years in the past, shortly after the Labour proper working contained in the social gathering had managed to forestall a Corbyn victory by sabotaging the marketing campaign for the 2017 Common Election, the Folks’s Meeting Towards Austerity organised a march by means of London calling for Theresa Could and the Conservatives to go.
In fact they didn’t go, and later when Boris Johnson known as an election over Brexit, he gained a landslide victory, quite than the shut name in 2017 which left Theresa Could having to bribe the Northern Irish DUP, a deeply bigoted social gathering with hyperlinks to Loyalist terrorists to help her.
This reliance on the DUP has ultimately led to the present drawback over the Irish Sea border preparations which Boris Johnson persuaded the EU to undertake as an important a part of his Brexit deal, and which the federal government is now pushing by means of a invoice to allow us to renege on.
And the Johnson administration has continued and worsened the Tory insurance policies which in 2017 ought to have resulted in a Labour victory. In my account of the protest march 5 years in the past as we speak I wrote
“The election confirmed a rejection of … austerity insurance policies and the Grenfell Tower catastrophe underlined the poisonous results of Tory failure and privatisation of constructing rules and inspection and a complete lack of concern for the lives of odd individuals. The protesters, a lot of whom chanted their help of Jeremy Corbyn, say the Tories have proved themselves unfit to control. They demand an honest well being service, schooling system, housing, jobs and residing requirements for all.”
The total details of the sabotage of the Labour election marketing campaign from contained in the social gathering had not then come to mild – and we’re nonetheless ready for the Forde inquiry into the leaked report which uncovered the racism, hyper-factionalism and electoral sabotage by social gathering officers in addition to the misguided makes an attempt of the Corbyn management such because the expulsion of Jackie Walker and the resignations of Chris Williamson and Ken Livingstone.
However though this was largely a march of Labour supporters there have been nonetheless various teams on the march who have been essential of Labour’s insurance policies and the practices of London Labour councils, significantly on housing, the place councils are “demolishing council estates and colluding with big property builders to switch them with costly and largely personal housing. It’s a large land seize, freely giving public land usually at far under market worth and pricing the previous residents out of London in what they name ‘regeneration’ however is sort of clearly a strategy of social and ethnic cleaning.”
It’s also a course of that has resulted in appreciable private monetary benefit for a few of those that have led it, with councillors and officers both leaving to work for the builders or in organisations arrange by councils to handle their estates. Establishing organisations such because the TMO answerable for the unsafe situation of Grenfell Tower has enabled these our bodies to cover details about such activites as utilizing consultants to advise them on circumventing satisfactory hearth inspections outdoors of the purview of Freedom of Data requests.
Most blatant amongst these teams was Class Struggle, alway able to make their views recognized and to problem authority. At the beginning of the march near the BBC they’d a bit run-in with the march stewards, which resulted in them briefly wrapping their banner round considered one of him – although in fact they quickly launched him. Later on the rally in Parliament Sq. I sadly missed a confrontation through which Lisa McKenzie stood in entrance of each Len McCluskey, Common Secretary of Unite the Union and Labour Chief Jeremy Corbyn and loudly requested them the easy query ‘When are you going to cease Labour councils socially cleaning individuals out of London?’. Each males merely ignored her and walked away.
Rather more concerning the occasion and plenty of extra footage at Tories Out March.
Tags: Towards Austerity, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Class Struggle, Conservatives, Corbyn, DUP, housing, Labour Boroughs, Len McCluskey, Lisa McKenzie, residing requirements, London, march, Peoples Meeting, peter Marshall, protest, Rev Paul Nicolson, social cleaning, Southwark, Theresa Could, Tories Out, Tory scum
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