London on boil against cut of people’s privileges as British citizens poured on city streets against trends of privatisation

Biggest trade union protest in last 20 years
Akhilesh Suman
London, 26 March.
Those in India who vouch for the West for guidance on economic policies must feel stunned on turn out of people on London Streets on Saturday to protest against governments policies to cut jobs and benefits to the people they were enjoying till now.
Rough estimates say the strength of the protesters is around 4 lakh and it is the second biggest after a protest against Iraq war in 2003. This correspondent was also present in London and had participated the march in 2003.
The protest march on London organised by Trade Union Congress (TUC) comprised of all sections of society including the bureaucrats who too are scared of their loosing retirement benefits and grip over economic dynamics of the country. Teachers, nurses, midwives, National Health System (NHS) workers, Local council and other public sector workers were joined by students, pensioners and direct action supporters, bringing the centre of the capital to a standstill.
Estimates say that unemployment became 30 percent higher when Gordan Brown was Chancellor (finance minister).
The protestors also violently attacked the restaurants and Hotel windows that are run by private magnets of the British economy. Banks and stores in Oxford Street were also targeted by the anti-cuts group UK Uncut.
Local people are calling it the biggest union-organised event since last 20 years saw more than 800 buses and dozens of trains hired to bring people to London. This caused many travellors to London who would otherwise have chosen to come to the British capital at the weekend.
The protestors coming from different parts of Britain including Scotland and Northern Ireland were heard speaking for their communities.
The speakers in the rally that took place in historic Hyde Park lamented that they would found alternative to brutal spending cuts which have already led to the threat of 170,000 council job losses and another 50,000 elsewhere in the public sector.
With over 50,000 job cuts already in the pipeline – nurses, doctors, physios, midwives – in the name of so-called efficiency savings of £20bn, the NHS is in worst situation since its inception.
‘It is like destroying what has taken generations to build. Let's be brutally clear about these brutal cuts. They're going to cost jobs on a huge scale – adding to the misery of the 2.5 million people already on the dole,’ a speaker at the rally said.
‘Every month when a library closes, a care home shuts its doors, or services for struggling young people are withdrawn, I want them to feel the fear, and anger of the people who have come here today from every part of the UK to vent their frustration and to stand up for a fairer future,’ another speaker added.