George Osborne isn’t working’: Protest outside Chancellor’s Knutsford office
Jon | 20.02.2011 15:47 | Public sector cuts
On 19th February Protesters formed a ‘dole queue’ outside Chancellor George Osborne’s constituency office in a demonstration against government cuts.
They stood in line on the pavement outside the Conservative office on Manchester Street in Knutsford – mimicking a 1979 Tory election poster.
The powerful poster image, created by advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi, showed a long queue of jobless workers under the title: “Labour Isn’t Working”.
Council workers, trade union activists and Sure Start campaigners joined the mock queue on Saturday. They carried banners that said: “The Coalition Isn’t Working”. Activist and photographer Richard Searle, who organised the demonstration, said: “This is a very British form of protest that utilises the backbone and cornerstone of our great society, our ability to queue in public places.
“Margaret Thatcher came to power with the image that the Labour government had led to high unemployment, with the irony being that it then rocketed under her government”. He added: “I wanted to create an image that comes back to haunt George Osborne as much as it haunts millions of us at the moment”.
Demonstrators put protest letters through the Tatton MP’s letter box and shouted: “Stop the Cuts Now”.
The protest was not quite as successful as we had hoped but it was decent turnout of mainly local trade unionists and Labour Party suporters on a cold Saturday morning.
The powerful poster image, created by advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi, showed a long queue of jobless workers under the title: “Labour Isn’t Working”.
Council workers, trade union activists and Sure Start campaigners joined the mock queue on Saturday. They carried banners that said: “The Coalition Isn’t Working”. Activist and photographer Richard Searle, who organised the demonstration, said: “This is a very British form of protest that utilises the backbone and cornerstone of our great society, our ability to queue in public places.
“Margaret Thatcher came to power with the image that the Labour government had led to high unemployment, with the irony being that it then rocketed under her government”. He added: “I wanted to create an image that comes back to haunt George Osborne as much as it haunts millions of us at the moment”.
Demonstrators put protest letters through the Tatton MP’s letter box and shouted: “Stop the Cuts Now”.
The protest was not quite as successful as we had hoped but it was decent turnout of mainly local trade unionists and Labour Party suporters on a cold Saturday morning.
Jon