British anti-cuts movement the People’s Assembly Against Austerity has attacked this week\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s state opening of parliament by Queen Elizabeth, saying her speech was crammed with “nasty right-wing populism.”\n<\/p>\n
The group said the Queen\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Speech set out a legislative program that was designed to divert attentions away from the huge spending cuts and privatization measures by the government.\n<\/p>\n
“Many expected the recent surge of votes for UKIP to drag official politics to the right. Few perhaps expected the shift to be so seamless,\u201d People’s Assembly secretary Sam Fairbairn said.\n<\/p>\n
“This is nothing but nasty right-wing populism and an attempt by the Tories to claw back those who have deserted their party for UKIP, much like the pugnacious [UKIP leader] Nigel Farage himself did in the early 1990s,” Fairbairn added.\n<\/p>\n
Fairbairn also said, with all the reference to a \u00c5\u201cfairer society\u201d in the speech, there was no mentioning of how that affects those unable to work in a country where four people are competing for each job vacancy on offer, a figure already at 20 for each job in some parts of Britain.\n<\/p>\n
The assembly is holding a protest rally in cooperation with the Stop the War Coalition on June 22 to break that group\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s record for the largest public rally in the nation\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s history.\n<\/p>\n
The People’s Assembly has already nine trade unions, several political parties and six Muslim organizations as its supporters.\n<\/p>\n
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