Big London demonstration against Theresa May today

Corbyn to speak at anti-Tory protest

Saturday 1st July 2017

JEREMY CORBYN will speak at a major People’s Assembly demonstration today as tens of thousands march in London calling for Prime Minister Theresa May to resign.

The Labour leader is set to address the “Not One Day More” protest at Parliament Square this afternoon, weeks after a general election that saw the Tories lose their Commons majority.

Labour’s shadow cabinet will also be out in force at marginals across the country today to deliver its “No Mandate” message in seats they narrowly missed.

Ahead of the London demo, Mr Corbyn will address an election-style rally in Hastings.

The constituency of Hastings and Rye is Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s seat and is among the most marginal in the country with a majority of just 346 votes.

Mr Corbyn will say: “I am proud to be here today in Hastings where you came within a whisker of painting the town red and electing Peter Chowney as a Labour MP.

“Labour gained seats across the country at the last general election, in every region and nation of Britain.

“Labour is no longer just the official opposition, we are a government in waiting.”

Other Labour MPs on the campaign trail include shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams at Calder Valley, with a 609 majority, and shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald at Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, which has a majority of 1,020.

People’s Assembly national secretary Sam Fairbairn told the Star: “People will descend on London in their thousands as they call for Theresa May and the Tories to go.

“This is a government who have lost their mandate and lost their credibility. Theresa May has repeatedly told those suffering years of Tory austerity that there is no magic money tree.

“Yet she managed to find £1.5 billion for a deal of shame to stay in power.

“We saw the sickening sight this week of the Tories and DUP cheering when they voted against a pay rise for hardworking and brave emergency services. Enough is enough. We need to get rid of the Tories and the reactionary DUP.”

The demonstration gathers at BBC headquarters from noon before marching to Parliament Square.

The deal between the Tories and DUP will continue to fail writes DIANE ABBOTT.

This video from London, England says about itself:

Protest the Tory-DUP Coalition of Chaos, Downing Street

Downing Street, Whitehall, London 17th June 2017

Protest organised by Sara Hanna-Black and Owen Jones to oppose the UK Conservative government’s alliance with the DUP. … What’s not acceptable is this despicable partnership with a backwards political party.

Take action and make your voice heard.

Action against austerity. Against poverty. Against discrimination.

SATURDAY 1 JULY – NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION

Not One Day More #ToriesOUT
Assemble 12pm, Saturday 1 July 2017
BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA (nearest tube Oxford Circus)
March to Parliament Square
Buses and coaches are being arranged from all over the country see this website for further information

Let’s come together to denounce the ill doings of the government’s austerity on those services that communities need.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

People’s Assembly demo: Austerity can be ended

Saturday 1st July 2017

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn will address the multitudes today in London at the NotOneDayMore #ToriesOut national demonstration organised by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity.

After a much better than expected general election result, when Labour took a number of seats from the Tories, reducing them to a minority government, greater numbers of people believe that another way is possible, that austerity can be ended.

Thursday’s victory for women denied abortion rights in Northern Ireland gave a clear signal that, even with Democratic Unionist Party assistance, Theresa May’s government can be outflanked.

There are so many issues, not least over the European Union, on which the Tory-DUP majority can be unpicked — exposing May to compromise, confusion and defeat.

Yet amid triumph, a self-indulgent group of Labour MPs put their own arrogance and self-importance before the greater good by supporting Chuka Umunna’s amendment pushing continued UK membership of the EU internal market and customs union.

Corbyn has a strategy to leave the EU based on prioritising jobs and seeking similar mutual trade conditions with the European bloc as currently exist.

His approach is based on honouring the decision taken by the electorate in the EU referendum, of understanding that membership of the internal market and customs union is incompatible with leaving the EU and calculating that the EU27 will favour a new arrangement that doesn’t destabilise a trading relationship currently weighted in their favour.

Labour supporters will not understand why Umunna and company should choose to behave in this way.

This is the same Umunna who regarded internal market membership as disposable last September when advocating opposition to free movement of people.

At a time when even a parliamentary novice should understand the need to dent Tory unity, his amendment gathered Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish and Welsh nationalists, a Green and Independent but left the Tories and their DUP allies unscathed.

If the intention of the Umunna faction — for that is what it is — was really to harm the Tories, it was an abject failure.

The suspicion of many Labour members and voters is that malevolence rather than incompetence lay at the heart of this Charge of the Lightweight Brigade political farce.

Corbyn has emerged from the general election campaign with new-found authority and respect, having addressed mass rallies across Britain, shamed May over his prompt engagement with the survivors of Grenfell Tower and displayed superior leadership in the House of Commons.

Anyone looking to undermine the new relationship between the party leader and the Parliamentary Labour Party would have opted to reopen old wounds linked to the EU, as the Blairite fifth column did.

Were they trying to persuade Lord Sainsbury that Progress is alive and kicking and that he should start writing cheques again?

Whatever the justification put forward by movers or supporters, no-one could claim ignorance that the likely outcome would be “Tories in turmoil” headlines transforming swiftly into “Labour riven by Brexit.”

But whereas such a stab in the back three months ago might have thrown Labour into confusion, times have changed.

Corbyn’s swift action in sacking three junior shadow ministers stamped his authority on the PLP, while former opponents, including Tom Watson and Stephen Kinnock, dissociated themselves from Umunna and criticised his decision.

Today’s mass activity, with Corbyn at its heart, confirms Labour’s current political reality and offers a new inclusiveness to all who put previous manoeuvres behind them.