I'm on the train back from London.<\/p>\n
After 2.5 hours spent covering a mile from the Embankment to Trafalgar Square via Whitehall I decided the chance of my part of the March for an Alternative reaching Hyde Park before nightfall was limited. By the time I left the head of the mrch had been therefore a long time - and some people had literally hardly started.<\/p>\n
There were hundreds of thousands of people on this march.<\/p>\n
It was universally good humoured - I was not a hint of trouble at all.<\/p>\n
If there is any - don't blame the TUC. This was an enormous event, scrupulously managed and with universal good will - not least from the piolice (after all, they should have every sympathy).<\/p>\n
I hear rumour there was trouble in Oxford Street but if so they were people utterly out of sympathy with what happened today.<\/p>\n
Today was about people making clear that they believe in society - not Cameron's profit driven version - not Clegg's sold out version - but one where pubic service is not for profit.<\/p>\n
It was about people saying they value their work - and the work of othes.<\/p>\n
About saying society will pay the price for cutting that work - a price much bigger than the supposed financial savings that will flow.<\/p>\n
It was about saying w on't need to cut - because closing the tax gap, creating investment and using public spending properly to create employment could prevent it.<\/p>\n
It was about letting people know they are not alone when they think this government insane - as rational people do.<\/p>\n
It was about confirming that there is value in life itself - not in the cash which is all the Tories can count.<\/p>\n
And it was well worth going to know all that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"