Occupy for the Alternative

[@eurobob512]

Brilliant peaceful effective action. UKUncut you rock!

[@00maharum00ma]

Solidarity from the US!

[@hairyneil]

Well done!

[@JoeTwerton]

@dckitchen Oh well, we'll have to agree to differ then. I don't mind the students protesting. Our country needs students but obviously they can't pay tax until they find employment. However, a lot of students raise money for charity, do voluntary or part-time paid work, and raise awareness of important issues like this. Students have bank accounts, so the banks make a profit out of them too. I'm glad the students have helped to make UK Uncut happen so that other people can join in.

[@iLike2Holdem]

Its the Labour Party who had a very large part to play in getting us into this mess, of over a trillion pounds of debt, we haven't run a budget surplus for over a decade, which obviously includes the good times as well as bad. Remember we are also running a budget deficit this year of over £140 billion and the country wont be running a budget surplus, which we can then use to start paying off the debt until 2016/2017.

[@JoeTwerton]

@dckitchen On the other hand, many are in further education and will ultimately go on to pay higher rates of tax.

[@BRobMorris]

@DyerMedia no actually the protest was very peaceful the actions and demonstrations became some what violent

[@iLike2Holdem]

These people have no answers only a personal interest in causing trouble, so normal people have to pay more tax to fund the Public sectors waste and over pay.

[@iLike2Holdem]

If the government changes track now the gilt markets will react, and react badly, increasing the rate we borrow from 3.5% to much higher, maybe even as high as Greece, Ireland and Portugal who pay over 10%. We pay £120 million a day in interest already! They want us to pay even more to pay for there wages and perks, like long holidays, huge redundancy packages and pensions. And taxing rich people wont raise more tax, maybe even less. History has proved this just leads to greater tax evasion.

[@RichieSpeed]

I take seven politicians from London and stand 'em all in line, Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine, A MAC-11 and this oughtta solve this problem of mine, And that's a whole school of bullies shot up at one time.

[@CreamedCheesed]

Needs more Cowbell

[@bobzilla211]

@iLike2Holdem of course, we both know who caused the recession - but even on the relatively trivial, moral point of bankers bonuses the coalition has claimed to be holding them to account while in reality protecting them and allowing them to continue operating as if it was 2006. In Europe, Tory MEPs have tried to block a ban on naked short selling, and tougher bank bonus legislation.

[@AlanTov]

Can someone call a Waaaaaaaambulance for BeeRich33? - c/o Gadaffi towers, Tripoli.

[@DyerMedia]

Such a violent protest...

[@bobzilla211]

@iLike2Holdem if you think this is just about the deficit, you're naive. if it was they wouldn't have cut HMRC, which actually lost them money as every £1 invested is £6 for the public purse. if it was they would actually tackle tax evasion which could cover the cost of the cuts. as for interest rates, its only a matter of time - the BoE has said inflation could be as high as 5% in a few months, their chief economist recently advised an increase, and the City is betting on it.

[@portsanity]

@iLike2Holdem F&M are no better than benefit thieves . They benefit from services that we have paid for,police,roads,street lighting,ambulances,firebrigade,prisons

[@iLike2Holdem]

@JoeTwerton Seems unlikely

[@bobzilla211]

@iLike2Holdem more to prevent tax evasion than any other before it? is that why they cut HMRC by 15%? which apart from meaning less tax is recovered, has the potential to cause a surge in avoidance? tax evasion just £6 billion? the official estimate of just simple avoidance is around £50 billion. that's forgetting the combined billions floating around in various offshore evasion schemes employed by companies and the super rich.

[@NourKyounis]

all of egypt support u

[@folumos]

1:04 Union of shop,Distributive and Allied Workers banner ...not UK Uncut! By the way I hope this was not filmed on a vodafone mobile?!

[@portsanity]

The same people who own fortnum and mason also own primark

[@iLike2Holdem]

@JoeTwerton Lets hope ur right, we'll need someone to pay for the rest of thems benefits. And let me guess, the people u know work in the public services.

[@iLike2Holdem]

@bobzilla211 This government is doing more to prevent tax evasion than any other before it, but don't pin ur hopes on that, I think total tax evasion comes to around £6 billion. But if its not all about the deficit then GOOD. Over the period of the Labour government Public sector spending has increased in real terms by over 25%, its completely unsustainable. Even after the cuts we are only going back to public sector spending at 2008!

[@bobzilla211]

of course being in debt is damaging but the scale of cuts is not helping the economy grow at all, quite the opposite - when the coalition govt came to power growth, if slowly, was returning, and there was decreasing unemployment. the government is acting as if age old economic problems like supply and demand don't exist - monetary policy alone cannot deal with this recession. you really think selling off all remaining assets and cutting corporate tax is the way to real growth?

[@JoeTwerton]

@iLike2Holdem Why? I know plenty of high earning postgraduates who did no shortage of activism in their youth.

[@JoeTwerton]

@dckitchen Nobody said that all university will end up with higher salaries. I merely said that many of the protestors will. As for me, I have paid tax for years and years, working six days a week and starting each day at 5.30am in the morning. Some of these criticisms contain so many strawman and ad hominen arguments. The skills that students acquire will constitute a big part of our economy in the future and I think they have every right to protest against unjust social policy.

[@iLike2Holdem]

@bobzilla211 So you think changing course now and causing the gilt markets to get scared and increase the intersest rates we borrow at is a good idea? We already pay £120 million in interest a day, shall we increase that to £200 million a day? We wont be running a budget surplus in until 2016 under this plan, when would you have us 2026? The time for a fiscal stimulus is over. Growth figures will come and go, but will always be healthier under this plan than any other.

[@bobzilla211]

@TalonWolf they're the sheep? rather than everyone who blindly accepts the government line that a deficit is somehow the most damaging thing to have in economics, despite the fact that we have growing inflation, growing unemployment, growing interest rates just around the corner, our international debt may even be downgraded - and no growth. austerity sure hasn't improved the place. don't be naive, of course there is money. how do you think they're paying for corporate tax cuts?

[@portsanity]

@rorshak73 Interesting assumption. But wealth is no indicator of good and bad The money put in offshore accounts and thus denied the tax man puts people out of work,increases the demand on the jobs that are available,which in turn lowers wages and effects workers rights. You may say that is morally neutral at worst but i say that is an attack on my standard of living and i am not going to just sit there and take it

[@EyeHeartElliottSmith]

Alternative...? What alternative?? If we ask who has said that they will cut down tax avoidance (the focus of the video), and who has actually implemented those changes... the answer is the government - £1bn is going to be raised from the 2011 budget from cutting down tax avoidance. Have Labour actually offered an alternative? Fuck no.

[@iLike2Holdem]

@bobzilla211 Do you think being over a trillion pounds in debt isn't damaging? Inflation may be increasing, but unemployment is expected to decrease and interest rates haven't changed for about 2 years and are at the lowest rates in the developed world at 0.5%. Whoever said Austerity would improve the place? Its not a choice its a necessity. See my posts below. U complain there's no growth, then about low corporate tax rates! That's the way we plan to increase growth, by encouraging business.

[@podrag]

UK Uncut I love you you are all so thoughtful and smart and righteous! I'm joining UK Uncut and here's a video explaining why! /watch?v=WcSjCoGEgRE&

[@iLike2Holdem]

@richiespeedisback U'd better hurry up, the benefit office closes in half an hour.

[@portsanity]

@rorshak73 Lets look at these "LEGAL" avoidance techniques. Put all assets in your wife's name who has a caymen islands passport. Get registered as a charity,not as a attempt to make your world better but to rip off the economy

[@theworkscw]

sheep