tiinyfae:howyougotthegirls:Some pictures from the London protests over Conservatives winning the Gen
tiinyfae:howyougotthegirls:Some pictures from the London protests over Conservatives winning the General Election from the #ToriesOutNow Twitter tagThank god tumblr’s stopping being so American-centric. Please support us, just overnight we’re being confronted with some nasty shit. I wasn’t too worried about them to begin with despite the homing troubles I’ve been having since I was a kid but now the threat of the privatisation of the NHS will kill us, it’s literally a homicide with he amount of people who rely on medical support and otherwise cannot afford to pay for it. I know you guys in America deal with this stuff already but please listen to us, we are not ready for this. Britain hasn’t faced this much danger since Thatcher. Not to mention homelessness and child poverty is predicted to rise by at least 30%. Also people have been beaten by police during this protest. There was a livestream earlier, you can probably google to find the footage. There was a young woman being pulled to the ground, hit in the face and then restrained. The police were plucking random people from the crowd and taking them down. My father told me when he attended a festival in Windsor during Thatcher’s reign the police grabbed and beat children. Our rights to protest are being revoked please support us. As for myself, my words aren’t hollow - I’m joining my local Green or Labour party and am standing for election as an equality officer in the Student’s Union. Steps need to be taken to preserve a future for us as the young people of Britain, and the best people to take action is ourselves. There’s been a moving and beautiful amount of international support for the American protests, please hold our hands too. Because we’re fucking scared. Myself, my friends, my dad, all his laddish pub-going friends are all scared.I honestly hoped things wouldn’t be so bad. That maybe the Conservatives could have changed and started working for the people, but they are not helping us. Everything that they have pledged will damage everyone under a middle class status. I live on the poverty line. I’m a nineteen year old transgender and I don’t want to be homeless again. And I don’t want to die because I can’t pay for keeping my lungs working. -- source link