Eviction of the vulnerable by Manchester City Council

The homeless camp, set up a few weeks back, which I mentioned here, was being torn down this morning. A heavy police presence - almost as many police as there were homeless people, about 25, were on hand as council workers stole perfectly usable tents (these people's actual homes) and threw them onto this lorry, before disposing of them.

The homeless and their supporters seemed in stoical good cheer, singing protest songs as their homes, and safe community, compared to sleeping isolated around the city, was dismantled.

So where are the homeless people meant to sleep now, Manchester City Council? It is shameful that a Labour council should act in this way. They are responsible for the protection and safeguarding of the vulnerable in our city and yet they do this.

The government is responsible for the cuts and policies that have made over a million people in the UK need food banks. Policies and cuts which have increased stress and homelessness on the most vulnerable. The misery, the illness and the blood of those who have suffered or died as a consequence is on the hands of every Tory voter, be they the over-privileged 1% or the others that made up the mere 24% of the electorate who voted Tory, brainwashed by the Mail and Sun. 

Join us for anti-austerity demonstrations this week: on Wednesday at noon in Albert Square, Saturday at 10.00 a.m in Albert Square for a protest picnic followed at noon in Piccadilly Gardens for an anti-austerity demonstration.

Reporting this outrage today from a dis-United Kingdom to readers of Our World Tuesday.