Austerity March - London (UNFINISHED)

On Saturday October 18, 2014, around 90,000 people who took part in “Britain Needs A Pay Rise,” a march and rally in London organised by the TUC (Trades Union Congress) to highlight the growing inequality in the UK, and to call for an increase in pay for those who are not in the top 10% of earners, who, it was recently revealed, now control 54.1% of the country’s wealth. The London march began on Victoria Embankment and proceeded to Hyde Park, where there was a rally. Other protests took place in Glasgow and Belfast.

On Saturday 18th October 2014, I attended the austerity march campaigning for wages to be increased and the national minumum wage upped. People from across the country turned out in their thousands to protest creating a colourful display of signs and banners along with balloons and posters expressing their anti tori views. I felt that attending the anti austerity protest march would give me an insight as to what a real protest looked like and the vibe that it gave off. Arguably the most important aspect of attending this protest was that I got the chance to capture some footage of the protest for us to use in our music video, considering the track is all about student protests, it was crucial that I got some real life footage of a protest. Although I would have liked to attend a protest strictly based around students and education cuts, there were no such events available.

An image taken by myself of the 'TUC' protest marching through Park Lane, London.