Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday evening in the UK: in Edinburgh, London, here in Manchester where 2000 of us held a rally, a die-in, went on a march with huge local impact and felt an overwhelming strength of togetherness. There were probably lots more cities with actions going on I've yet to hear about. Despite this, too many MPs ignored their constituents and voted for air strikes on Syria.
We in the Stop the War movement will continue to demonstrate and we all know there will soon be blood on the hands of Cameron and the other 390 ill informed and misguided MPs who voted for bombs, some of which will soon kill Syrian civilians.
Manchester Evening News coverage includes some great photos even if some of their facts are wrong, as usual.
I inadvertently delted this co,ment from Pete who often comments and questions my posts: Am reinstating it!
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12:03 PM (1 hour ago)
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pete has left a new comment on your post "#NotInMyName #DontBombSyria @STWuk #citydailyphoto...":
Opinion polls show that bombing Syria has reasonably strong public support.
I can't see how you can claim that too many MPs ignored their constituents on this matter.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/12024146/Voters-support-bombing-Isil-in-Syria-much-more-than-Labour-would-have-you-think.html
Posted by pete to mancunian wave at 3 December 2015 at 12:03
To which I replied: The Independent poll states 78% of the public are (currently, Thursday lunchtime, UK time) against the bombing at:
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That's a readers poll on the Independent's website, not an opinion poll conducted using a carefully chosen, representative, cross section of the UK population.
DeleteOur new prime minister had the right idea with this- step back from indiscriminate bombing and train the local troops.
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