Published: October 8th 2011 - at 12:01 am

‘Largest act of civil disobedience’ tomorrow


by Newswire    

When Big Ben strikes 1pm on Sunday 9th October, health professionals, pensioners, trade union members, families and well known comedians will be amongst the thousands of people expected to walk into the road and occupy Westminster Bridge, the iconic London landmark, to protest against the government’s Health and Social Care bill.

In blocking the bridge the protest will symbolically block the bill from leaving parliament.

Nearly 3,000 people are now signed up online with 14 coaches are coming to London from towns and cities across the UK. There is strong support for UK Uncut’s campaign from healthcare groups, Trade Unions and NGOs.

Clown doctors led by comedians Josie Long and Mark Thomas, musicians and a ‘kids space’ run by Save Camden Child Care will help occupy the bridge between 1-4pm, just days before the bill’s second reading in the House of Lords.

400 public health experts published a letter in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week, warning the House of Lords to reject the proposed NHS reforms. They said that the plans will cause the NHS “irreparable harm” and called on the Lords to throw them out.

UK Uncut is clear about why mass civil disobedience is needed to prevent the bill going through “Yes, it will be disruptive. Yes, it will stop the traffic. But this is an emergency and if we want to save our NHS we need to shout as loud as we can. No one voted for this bill but together we can stop it.”


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‘Largest act of civil disobedience in years’ tomorrow

Have you forgotten about the recent riots already?

@1:

I don’t think the ‘rioters’ were particularly civil, meself.

3. the a&e charge nurse

Why is the NHS being dismantled to be replaced by a health care model that is virtually on the brink of collapse ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xXCVWW-i4

Will be working tomorrow so cannot get to the bridge.

4. Arthur Seaton

Good luck to them on this brave and necessary initiative. The bastards aren’t going to get away with dismantling the NHS without a fight.

5. paul barker

Tomorrow is now nearly yesterday. How big are you claiming it was & where was the Civil Disobedience ? On the Telly it looked like an ordinary Demo.

6. When I see the pale sunshine fade

LMAO!

LC overhype. A non-event indeed.

I see your modernising, democratic, ‘Arab Spring’ cunts have burnt down another church in Egypt.
Why not demonstrate about that ‘liberals’?
Oh right..Because it’s non-Muslim victims and Muslim attackers.

7. Leon Wolfson

@6 – I’m sorry, you seem to have mistaken the left for your own group, you’re the xenophobes round here who think that that kind of behaviour is a good idea.

You cloak it in other words, but you’re fundamentally out to get anyone different.

@6 psstt… you forgot to add ‘marxist’, ‘communist’ and ‘fascist’ at some point in your post! How can you troll a comment section without using those words… sigh, much to learn this one has.

9. So Much For Subtlety

Nearly 3,000 people are now signed up online with 14 coaches are coming to London from towns and cities across the UK. There is strong support for UK Uncut’s campaign from healthcare groups, Trade Unions and NGOs.

So the best Union-backed Astroturf in Britain can only manage some 3,000 people?

How is this remotely a large act of civil disobedience?

Let me compare it with Child Support. Fathers are presently refusing to pay some 4 billion pounds worth. Now that is civil disobedience.

Fathers are presently refusing to pay some 4 billion pounds worth. Now that is civil disobedience.

If you’re looking for the largest sustained act of civil disobedience, consider that more than half the drivers in the UK consistently break the law on speed limits and have done so for 50 years.

11. Arthur Seaton

So, “only 3000″ not good enough for you So Much for Sense? I do recall when your ideological allies and their long-hyped “March Against Debt” managed a national total of about 350 after several weeks publicity, now that really was a laugh.

How about the 35,000 outside Tory conference last week, or the 400,000 out in London earlier this year? I suppose in those cases, the numbers mysteriously become “irrelevant.”

Don’t bother replying by the way, I shan’t bother reading.

12. So Much For Subtlety

10. TimJ

If you’re looking for the largest sustained act of civil disobedience, consider that more than half the drivers in the UK consistently break the law on speed limits and have done so for 50 years.

Yeah but how many of them do so inadvertently? It is hard to keep to the speed limit all the time – especially when the signs are not obvious.

But you do have a point.

11. Arthur Seaton

So, “only 3000? not good enough for you So Much for Sense?

No.

I do recall when your ideological allies and their long-hyped “March Against Debt” managed a national total of about 350 after several weeks publicity, now that really was a laugh.

So it was. But of course they did not have the full time paid political organisers the Unions are providing for this rally did they? Still, let’s agree they are both equally irrelevant.

How about the 35,000 outside Tory conference last week, or the 400,000 out in London earlier this year? I suppose in those cases, the numbers mysteriously become “irrelevant.”

Not at all. They showed something. That Britain has a lot of people without jobs mostly.

Don’t bother replying by the way, I shan’t bother reading.

But you shall, you shall.

13. Leon Wolfson

@12 – Yea, you keep trolling to disrupt the conversation.

Sunny, are you going to do anything about this useful idiot for the Tories, or are you going to see left-wing posters drift away?


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