Hundreds join UK Uncut’s Downing Street Dole Queue to tell George Osborne that ‘Austerity Isn’t Working’

Nearly 400 UK Uncut protestors gathered to form a ‘dole queue‘ outside Downing St today to highlight soaring unemployment under the government’s austerity programme.

Unemployed people from across London came together with members of the anti-austerity direct action group UK Uncut to recreate the Tories’ iconic 1979 election poster featuring a queue of jobseekers snaking into the distance. 400 people joined the queue, which snaked up Whitehall towards Trafalgar Square.

After the queue finished, UK Uncut protestors made their way to the outdoor broadcast area on College Gardens where their chanting of ‘Tax the rich, not the poor’ forced the BBC to abandon an interview with Lib Dem president Tim Farron.