Olympic Web site & Price range Cuts: Wednesday fifth December 2012 was a chilly day in London, with the temperature simply three or 4 levels above freezing through the day, however there was loads of blue sky with just a few clouds and it appeared very best climate to wrap up and go and see what progress had been made in restoring the Olympic website, nonetheless largely off-limits some months after the top of the video games. And later within the early night I returned to Westminster for a protest in opposition to the cuts which had been introduced by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in his autumn finances assertion.
Olympic Space Barely Open – Stratford Marsh
A lot of the world across the Olympic website had been closed to the general public in Could, together with the Greenway, the elevated footpath on high of the Northern Outfall Sewer which runs near the Olympic stadium, however this was now re-opened partially.
The part between Stratford Excessive Avenue and the principle railway strains which run from Liverpool Avenue station to Stratford and on additional east was nonetheless nonetheless closed and would stay closed for years as work was now going down for Crossrail – opened because the Elizabeth Line in 2022.
I began my stroll within the early afternoon across the Bow flyover the place the Bow Again rivers had been nonetheless closed to visitors with a yellow floating barrier, however the footpath alongside the Lea Navigation had been re-opened. One enchancment made presumably for the Olympics was a pathway and footbridge taking walkers underneath the busy street junction and throughout the canal.
Discovering the brand new entrance to the Greenway meant strolling between fences on the Crossrail website down Pudding Mill Lane, and possibly I’d have deserted the route had it not been for indicators put up by the View Tube café – although once I lastly reached this I discovered I used to be the one particular person to have achieved so and the cafe was abandoned.
There have been nonetheless fences in every single place as you possibly can see from my images however I used to be capable of stroll alongside the Greenway to Hackney Wick after which alongside the towpath beside the navigation. However the footpath beside the Previous River Lea was nonetheless blocked off.
By then the sunshine was starting to fade and the Olympic stadium was gaining a golden glow. I walked a little bit additional alongside the towpath and photographed the Eton boathouse because the solar was setting setting earlier than crossing the canal and making my strategy to Hackney Wick station.
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Olympic Space Barely Open.
Osborne’s Price range Cuts – Strand to Whitehall
A number of hundred college students, commerce unionists, socialists and others marched with UCU London Area down the Strand and into Whitehall shouting slogans in opposition to public service cuts, the wealthy, David Cameron and George Osborne specifically.
Reverse Downing Avenue they joined with others already protesting there together with CND and Cease the Battle who had been calling for the federal government to cease losing cash on the struggle in Afghanistan and vainness initiatives supporting the arms trade similar to Trident and its deliberate alternative.
“The Afghanistan struggle — which everybody is aware of is futile and misplaced — is costing round £6 billion a 12 months. The yearly upkeep prices for Trident are £2.2 billion a 12 months. The price of renewing the Trident system — which this authorities is dedicated to do — would value as much as £130 billion. Two plane carriers are being constructed at a price of £7 billion. Then there’s the £15 billion to be spent shopping for 150 F-35 jets from the US, every of which can value £85 million plus an additional £16 million for the engine.”
The rally started shortly after the marchers arrived. By now it was solely simply above freezing and audio system had been requested to maintain their contributions quick due to the temperature.
Among the many audio system had been John McDonnell MP, Kate Hudson of CND, writer Owen Jones, Andy Greene of DPAC, Inexperienced Occasion chief Natalie Bennett and others together with a nurse from Lewisham Hospital threatened with closures, from the NUT, UK Uncut and different commerce unionists.
Most of the audio system known as on commerce unions to take efficient motion in opposition to the cuts. calling for union leaders to cease merely talking in opposition to them and take the lead from their members and begin organising strike motion. However in fact few did and the cuts continued unabated.
Extra at Osborne’s Price range Cuts.
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