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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jun 18, 2022, 01:35 PM Jun 2022

Big crowds take to London streets to protest soaring costs

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in a protest over the soaring cost of living in Britain.

Huge crowds flooded into the British capital for the rally to demand that the government do more to help people faced with bills and other expenses that are rising more quickly than their wages.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been criticized for being slow to respond to the cost-of-living crisis. Inflation in Britain and across Europe has been surging, as Russia's war in Ukraine crimped supplies of energy and food staples like wheat. Prices were already rising before the war, as the global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in strong consumer demand.

Demonstrators carried banners with messages such as “Cut war not welfare." They booed when they passed by 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's residence, according to videos posted on social media.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/big-crowds-take-to-london-streets-to-protest-soaring-costs/ar-AAYCeaH

The MAGAts say it's all Joe Biden's fault.

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Big crowds take to London streets to protest soaring costs (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
Protest the oil companies rockfordfile Jun 2022 #1
Americans wait for their government to fix it and make it better because they're sorry for us. Magoo48 Jun 2022 #2
And how many of them voted for Brexit? tanyev Jun 2022 #3

Magoo48

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2. Americans wait for their government to fix it and make it better because they're sorry for us.
Sat Jun 18, 2022, 01:44 PM
Jun 2022

If we don’t start making a ruckus, prices may at some point stop going up, but, they will never go back down significantly.

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