UK: Thousands of anti-austerity protesters swamp central London

An estimated 71,000 people took to the streets of London, Saturday, to decry the Conservative Party's introduction of large cuts to public spending and reinforcement of pro-austerity policy. Protesters gathered outside Bank House in the City district, thousands holding anti-austerity banners, many defending the National Health Service (NHS) and calling for cuts to the UK Trident nuclear weapons programme. The protesters oppose the Tory's pro-austerity policies that are expected to be implemented within the next five years. Among them are an estimated £30 billion (€41 billion; $46 billion) worth of cuts to public spending, an estimated £12 billion (€16.5 billion, $18.8 billion) in unspecified welfare cuts and the abolition of housing benefit for under-21s on Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA).