{"id":5177,"date":"2011-03-26T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T17:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2011-03-26T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T18:15:18","slug":"march-for-the-alternative-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5177","title":{"rendered":"March for the Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Vee and I went on the <a href=\"http:\/\/marchforthealternative.org.uk\/\">March For The Alternative<\/a> in central London, an event organised by the Trades Union Congress to protest at the scale and speed of the cuts in public expenditure being implemented by the Coalition Government. It was a huge and noisy demonstration that was attended by an estimated 250,000.<\/p>\n<p>We joined our son Richard, daughter-in-law Emily, and their 10-week old daughter Catrin. To be honest, we only walked from Blackfriars Bridge to Trafalgar Square &#8211; three hours was enough for us.<\/p>\n<p>I signed up for text messages from the police which told an interesting story:<br \/>\n11.45 am   The march has moved off early<br \/>\n12.51 pm   The head of the march is now in Hyde Park<br \/>\n4.47 pm    The rear of the march is in Piccadilly<br \/>\n5.25 pm    Speeches at Hyde Park have now ended<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/TUC1.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Vee &amp; Roger with Richard &amp; Catrin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/TUC2.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Richard &amp; Emily with daughter Catrin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/TUC3.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>No cuts &#8211; or too far and too fast?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/TUC4.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Cuts to the National Health Service the most painful<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/TUC5.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Giant scissors below Big Ben<\/span><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Vee and I went on the March For The Alternative in central London, an event organised by the Trades Union Congress to protest at the scale and speed of the cuts in public expenditure being implemented by the Coalition Government. It was a huge and noisy demonstration that was attended by an estimated 250,000. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}