Huge NHS, anti-cuts rally to hit Conservative party conf.
Thousands of British protesters will rally outside the co-ruling Conservative party™s annual conference this weekend to censure the government™s spending cuts and their impact on jobs and the health service.
The massive protest organized by trade unions™ umbrella group the Trades Union Congress (TUC) will hit Manchester on Sunday as Conservatives gather in the city for the high-profile conference.
The TUC has pledged a three-mile march against cuts to the National Health Service (NHS) that will pass the venue of the Conservative conference before protesters hold a rally, named Save Our HNS, at Manchester™s Whitworth Park.
The key rally will be attended by opposition Labour™s health spokesman Andy Burnham as well as leaders of the TUC and three of Britain™s largest unions Unite, Unison and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union.
According to TUC, the protesters will address the impact of massive job and spending cuts as well as privatization of the most lucrative services on NHS.
The body says the latter is especially scandalous as many of the private companies slated to take over the services have been major donors to the Conservative party.
The event is expected to also attract protesters outraged by the government’s hugely-controversial bedroom tax plans, Royal Mail privatization and public sector cuts.
Meanwhile, leading British anti-war group the Stop the War Coalition has called for the œbiggest possible” anti-war contingent in the TUC rally to œkeep up the pressure against an attack on Syria”.
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