(London) Protest march against coalition cuts expected to attract 300,000

Police braced for high numbers in London with 800 coaches and at least 10 trains chartered from around the country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/26/protest-march-coalition-cuts-300000

More than a quarter of a million protesters against public sector cuts are expected to flood central London today in the biggest political demonstration for nearly a decade.

Police sources, normally cautious about estimating numbers, said last night they were braced for up to 300,000 people to join the march – far higher than previous forecasts from TUC organisers.

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Miliband said in a speech in Nottingham: "I thought the politics of the 1980s were rotten because they divided our country. I fear that this government is practising the politics of division."

He argued that the government's policies divided rich against poor, public sector workers against private sector workers and north against south. "These aren't the voices of people marginal to our country but the voices of the mainstream majority in our country and that's why I'll be addressing the rally tomorrow," he said. He had been told not to join the march because of safety concerns.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/quotabsolutely-enormousquot-turnout-for-anticuts-march-2253791.html

A mass protest being staged today against cuts in public spending was set to be the biggest for years as more people than expected turned up to send an angry message to the Government.

The TUC had estimated that around 100,000 union activists and other campaigners would take part in today's demonstration in London, but it was clear that hundreds of thousands had made their way to the capital.

Unofficial estimates said that at least 250,000 demonstrators were packing into central London before a march had even started.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, told the Press Association that the turnout was "absolutely enormous and showed the anger of ordinary working people at the Government's cuts".




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