13-07-18 Occupy London: Stuff the Banks: UK Uncut and Direct Action, part 1

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

Posted on July 16, 2013

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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