Join Saturday’s Protest Against Attacks Upon Leicestershire’s Fire Services

Campaigners are protesting in Leicester this weekend to demand an end to the political attacks on the funding of Leicestershire’s fire services.

The event intends to send a clear message to all politicians that they should not play with fire when it comes to our lives. Protestors armed with banners and placards will be meeting in Town Hall Square from 12pm onwards this Saturday.

A number of speakers from community groups and trade unions will be addressing the protest in defence of our vitally important fire services. “Now is the time for the people of Leicestershire to come together to fight all cuts to public services,” explained local trade unionist Tessa Warrington.

Members of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) are among the groups supporting the event. Former local TUSC Councillor Wayne Naylor said:

Leicestershire Firefighters need our support. They provide a valuable service to both the city and the county, none of us know when we will need them, we all need to be reassured that they will be there at the time when we need them. Members of TUSC wholeheartedly support their fight against cuts and will be there to support them this Saturday. Life is precious, they are the first line of support in fires and in accidents, we all need to make sure that it stays that way.

Organised by local union reps who are members of the National Shop Stewards Network, the protest will call upon Leicester’s Labour council to refuse to implement the Tories hated cuts agenda.

National Shop Stewards Network chairman, Rob Williams, sent a message of support to the event, saying: “Fighting against the cuts is the biggest and most pressing challenge facing working class people in Britain today. Labour councils, like Leicester, should refuse to vote to pass the Tories attacks onto workers’ jobs and services.”

Saturday’s protest in Leicester has been organised in firm support of the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) determined campaign against their funding cuts, and will show the firefighters that the people of Leicester are 100 percent opposed to ongoing destruction of Leicestershire’s public services.

The organisers of the planned event say they want to expose the Tory lie that there is no money to spare for public services, and are determined that if petitioning and protests are not enough, then, if need be, they will support united industrial action against cuts.

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