The number of people in London relying on food banks tripled last year. In the fifth richest city in the world, 42,064 people used food banks last year - forced by our government to make the choice between paying the bills or eating, feeding themselves or feeding their children.
Stuff the Banks: UK Uncut and Direct Action, part 1
This Saturday (July 20th) sees the latest direct action initiated by protest network UK Uncut. Formed in 2010 in response to the coalition government’s spending cuts, UK Uncut have sparked a series of remarkable and creative protests which have helped force the issue of corporate tax avoidance into a mainstream media that is normally more preoccupied with whipping up hysteria about the far smaller amounts lost to benefit fraud amongst the UK’s most destitute. Benefit fraud stands at £1.2 billion a year, but this is dwarfed by not only the £16 billion that goes unclaimed in benefits, but also the £25 billion that is lost each year in unpaid tax by big businesses. These are facts and figures that now trip of the tongue of an increasingly economically- and politically-savvy public, and this is in no small part thanks to awareness-raising activities of groups such as UK Uncut.
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