Social justice campaigners warned yesterday that people will die on the streets after the Tory victory was labelled “devastating” and the “worst outcome” for Britain’s most vulnerable.
Housing, disabled rights and anti-nuclear groups were just some of the many vowing not to give up their fight against further austerity measures, cuts and privatisation.
Homeless support group Streets Kitchen founder Jon Glackin said: “We will continue to support our streets, with no funding, and resist attacks any way we can.”
But after homelessness figures reportedly doubled under the outgoing coalition government, Mr Glackin could not help but admit that homeless activists “await with dread this greater Britain promised by Cameron and the Tories.
Effects of the Conservative landslide in England were quickly felt on the housing market, as estate agent Foxtons’s share price soared 13 per cent.
Housing campaign Hackney Renters member Kieran Aldred admitted that the group had not expected such dire results, adding that, for “everyone caught up in the gnashing teeth of the housing crisis, this is the worst outcome.”
However, he pledged his campaign would not “slip into a coma of despair and rage.”
“Now, more than ever, we need to be focused, vocal and organised,” he said.
And, despite seeing Conservative former employment minister Esther McVey lose her seat in Wirral West, disabled campaigners were equally appalled by the results.
Debbie Jolly of Disabled People Against Cuts said that, while “disabled people will be pushed even further into poverty and fear” under the incoming government, campaigners “won’t give up, and must fight harder.”
She said the struggle would go on “until every hardship, every death and every misery has been exposed and accounted for.
“It’s not the end. This is a new beginning and we’re ready, but we need all disabled people and our allies to stand firm and fight back even harder than they have done in the last five years.
“Apathy is not an option any of us can now afford.”
Housing, disabled rights and anti-nuclear groups were just some of the many vowing not to give up their fight against further austerity measures, cuts and privatisation.
Homeless support group Streets Kitchen founder Jon Glackin said: “We will continue to support our streets, with no funding, and resist attacks any way we can.”
But after homelessness figures reportedly doubled under the outgoing coalition government, Mr Glackin could not help but admit that homeless activists “await with dread this greater Britain promised by Cameron and the Tories.
Effects of the Conservative landslide in England were quickly felt on the housing market, as estate agent Foxtons’s share price soared 13 per cent.
Housing campaign Hackney Renters member Kieran Aldred admitted that the group had not expected such dire results, adding that, for “everyone caught up in the gnashing teeth of the housing crisis, this is the worst outcome.”
However, he pledged his campaign would not “slip into a coma of despair and rage.”
“Now, more than ever, we need to be focused, vocal and organised,” he said.
And, despite seeing Conservative former employment minister Esther McVey lose her seat in Wirral West, disabled campaigners were equally appalled by the results.
Debbie Jolly of Disabled People Against Cuts said that, while “disabled people will be pushed even further into poverty and fear” under the incoming government, campaigners “won’t give up, and must fight harder.”
She said the struggle would go on “until every hardship, every death and every misery has been exposed and accounted for.
“It’s not the end. This is a new beginning and we’re ready, but we need all disabled people and our allies to stand firm and fight back even harder than they have done in the last five years.
“Apathy is not an option any of us can now afford.”
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