UK Uncut’s New Film, “The Missing Billions,” About Savage Austerity Cuts and Corporate Tax Avoidance
I hope you have 25 minutes to spare to watch a new film by UK Uncut, entitled, “The Missing Billions,”
which I’ve posted below. Since emerging in October 2010, the UK Uncut
campaigners have protested against tax avoidance in the UK and have
worked to raise awareness about cuts to public services.
This is an important documentary, and a perfect follow-up to my article yesterday, RIP Karen Sherlock, Another Victim of the Tories’ Brutal, Heartless Disability Reforms,
in which I not only mourned the death of disability campaigner Karen
Sherlock, who was herself severely disabled, but also reiterated my sustained attack on the government’s cruelty and incompetence, with particular reference to the government’s assault on education, on the NHS, and on the unemployed and disabled.
As is explained in the film, £850 billion was used to bail out the banks, even though, according to some estimates, $11 trillion is hidden in offshore accounts — enough to tackle deficits without the savage and self-defeating austerity measures that are steadily destroying the fabric of life in the UK.
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