London CAAT took part in the Global Day of Action on Military Spending with a protest outside the Treasury. Placards contrasted the UK's military expenditure in 2010 (£38.954bn) with the number of nurses that could fund (1.5 million) or the cuts the Ministry of Defence was facing (8%) compared to the cut of the school buildings budget (67%). Report and pics ...

A die in took place on the steps of the Treasury and this gained the attention of a number of passersby. Inventive chants such as Welfare not Warfare, A&E not BAE (Systems, one of the world's largest arms companies) and Sure Start not War Start also caught the attention of the public.