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Originally Posted by Eric
In the Middle East right now, people are giving their lives, many of them in the hope of getting the freedoms that you guys in the UK take for granted.
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Yes, of course. But alongside the freedom comes a responsibilty to use that freedom properly. Saturdays march was hijacked by people with an alternative agenda, who exploited peoples understandable concerns about the cuts. I include not just the anarchists, but also the lemmings who were parading placards arguing against any cuts at all.
And it was completely disingenuous of the Labour Leader to associate himself so closely with the protests, because by his own admission a Labour Government would have been making extensive cuts themselves this year.
Nobody came out of Saturday's march with any credit, and in a sense it completely backfired.