Protests will take place across the UK over the cost of living crisis

Protests will be held across the country on Saturday against the cost of living crisis, rising energy prices and other taxes. The People’s Assembly said it expected thousands of protesters to take to the streets in dozens of locations across the UK to highlight those experiencing “real hardship” due to a combination of fuel and food prices, inflation and low wages.

Unions are complaining that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spring statement has done nothing to allay fears of higher fuel taxes and rising inflation, while the TUC calls for an urgent budget to help families. The People’s Assembly said removing the energy price limit on Friday would create an “impossible choice for many”: eat or warm up.

A spokesperson for the campaign group said: “Public anger over the cost of living crisis is growing rapidly and our response is growing.” There will be protests outside London’s Downing Street, with similar events in areas such as Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Cambridge, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Glasgow, Hanley, Hull, Ipswich, Lancaster, Leicester, Leicester. Keynes, Newcastle, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Preston, Redcar, Sheffield and Southampton.

Speaking at a rally in London, former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “With taxes on fuel, food and energy rising, the rising cost of living pushing millions of people into poverty, and the disgusting treatment of government. Demonstrations will take place across the country, Where thousands of people gather to demand a redistribution of wealth and power and decent wages for all, as well as justice for P&O workers.”

“What people are going through is unbearable,” said Laura Bidcock, the National Assembly’s general secretary, who spoke at the protest. No matter how patient we are in explaining that government inaction on rising energy and fuel costs and soaring food prices will exacerbate poverty, misery and hunger, it is at best indifferent and at worst the same.

“The truth is that they are so married to our economic system, and they are so one-sidedly comfortable, that even when markets visibly fail, they continue to function normally. We tell them about hungry children and the government is politically ignorant.

The Rail, Marine and Transportation union is also expecting more protests in the coming days for the release of nearly 800 P&O sailors. The Bankruptcy Service announced, Friday, that it has launched a formal criminal and civil investigation into the circumstances of the escape.

RMT’s general secretary, Mick Lynch, said there was a “clear reason” to seize the P&O vessels.

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