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  • Thousands of doctors protest Tory Party conference over pay

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    https://leftfootforward.org/2023/10/thousands-of-doctors-protest-tory-party-conference-over-pay/

    “We are fed up of giving sub-standard and delayed care”

    Doctors protest at Conservative party conference 2023
    Doctors protest at Conservative party conference 2023

    Thousands of doctors have gathered in Manchester outside the Tory Party conference to demand the government listen to their pay demands.

    Around 2,000 doctors are expected to be at the national rally this Tuesday organised by the BMA union, with doctors travelling from across the country to join, including junior doctors, consultants and radiographers who are all on strike today.

    Doctor Emma Runswick of the BMA said this morning that doctors were ‘fed up’ with giving sub-standard and delayed care to patients under the current conditions. She said doctors were in Manchester in the hope of talking to Tory delegates.

    “We’ll be here literally on the doorstep, if they want to come and talk to us they can step outside and we will start negotiations today or tomorrow,” said Runswick.

    “We’re hoping that we will be able to put some pressure on the government to resolve this dispute.”

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    https://leftfootforward.org/2023/10/thousands-of-doctors-protest-tory-party-conference-over-pay/

  • Conservative members ‘thrown out of Manchester gay bar’ after being made to feel ‘uncomfortable’ by anti-Tory drag act

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    https://www.gbnews.com/news/conservative-members-manchester-tory-lgbt-latest

    A group of Tories were kicked out of a bar in Manchester as a result of their political stance, according to LGBT Conservatives board member Albie Amankona.

    According to Amankona, local hostilities towards the Tories were laid bare in a city centre bar.

    A drag act is alleged to have made a group of visiting Tory members feel “uncomfortable” by making a series of derogatory remarks about the party, before security stepped in to throw out the group “out of nowhere”.

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    https://www.gbnews.com/news/conservative-members-manchester-tory-lgbt-latest

  • Thousands march against Tories in Manchester

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-march-against-tories-in-manchester

    Meanwhile, police officers criticised for searching campaigners’ coach and ‘undermining their right to protest’

    A huge protest against the Tories in Manchester, October 1, 2023 Photo: Neil Terry / Neil Terry Photography
    A huge protest against the Tories in Manchester, October 1, 2023 Photo: Neil Terry / Neil Terry Photography

    THOUSANDS of people marched through the streets of Manchester today telling delegates to the Tory Party conference there that they are not welcome.

    Headed by the banner of the Manchester People’s Assembly, which organised the march with the national People’s Assembly, the protesters represented trade unions and a huge diversity of campaign groups expressing their anger at the destruction wrought across society by the Tories.

    Disabled people, peace activists and dozens more groups marched noisily through the city centre.

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    Protesters from all across the country took coaches to attend the march.

    One coach transporting protesters from London was stopped by the police, who signalled the bus to follow them to Knutsford in Cheshire where it was searched by around 30 officers.

    The protesters were late as a result. Activists said it undermined their right to protest and was a waste of police time and money.

    Lorraine Douglas, from the Communist Party, said: “The sergeant came on and said they’d received intelligence that there were people on the bus set on doing criminal damage and they were going to search the bus for equipment that could cause criminal damage.”

    The police went on to read a section of the Public Order Act.

    “They refused to say what the intelligence was, and they got us all off the bus and searched the bus, found one flare and it looked like they had some magic markers or pens,” Ms Douglas said.

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-march-against-tories-in-manchester

    Are the police targeting Communists?