Thousands to protest austerity cuts in London
Anti-austerity protesters from across Britain are set to stage a demonstration in the capital, London, to demand an end to the conservative government’s spending cuts.
So far more than 4,000 people have signed up for the Saturday demonstration which will see protesters move through London to Trafalgar Square.
The protest rally will be the largest since the re-election of the conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron last year.
Those in attendance are making a stand against government cuts to health, social housing, jobs and education.
Protest organizers accuse the government of being favorable to the privileged, saying the austerity drive has pushed ordinary Britons further into poverty.
The rally has been organized by the People's Assembly Against Austerity alongside several trade unions, including Unite.
Saturday’s protest also comes amid a new crisis Cameron is facing over the Panama leaks.
Last week, the organizers called for the resignation of Cameron over links to his father’s offshore company.
The Tories are facing their biggest crisis yet. David Cameron’s stake in his father’s offshore tax haven proves that “this is a government for the privileged few, not for the majority. This shows beyond all doubt that Cameron is divorced from the life of any working person,” the organizers wrote on their Facebook page.
Cameron has been under pressure by the media and the opposition to disclose the details of financial relations between his father, Ian Cameron, and a Panamanian law firm specializing in reducing the tax burdens for the wealthy.
Earlier, Cameron rejected the allegations against him and his father over tax evasion as “deeply hurtful and profoundly untrue."
The Panama Papers are a leak of 11.5 million files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca. The records, which were obtained from an anonymous source, contain information on 215,000 offshore entities connected to individuals in more than 200 countries and territories.
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