Peace campaigners from Rochdale and Littleborough Peace
Group joined tens of thousands of other trade unionists in London on Saturday
(18 October 2014). They formed part of the Peace Bloc on the TUC’s ‘Britain
Needs A Pay Rise’ march which culminated with a rally in Hyde Park.
Philip Gilligan, on behalf of the Peace Group said
“Ordinary people in Rochdale and throughout the country have seen their real
incomes drop year on year. Wages and benefits are not keeping pace with
people’s increased costs of living. Meanwhile, successive governments have continued
to squander £billions on useless and dangerous nuclear weapons of mass
destruction which not only threaten the destruction of our world, but
constantly divert scarce resources from the public services we all need. We
agree with the TUC that Britain needs a pay rise and we know that the country could
afford this, if the government would stop wasting £3billion per year on the
Trident nuclear weapons system and scrap plans to squander another £100billion
on even more dangerous and expensive nuclear weapons. We need a government that
will scrap Trident and put the resources saved into the NHS, the jobs, the
homes and the social and education services we need.”
