A protest over the spiralling cost of living is taking place in Lancaster city centre today.
It’s being organised by campaign group, The People’s Assembly, and is scheduled to take place in Market Square later, one of 25 locations across the country where action is taking place.
A spokesperson for the group said: ‘’Public outrage over the Cost of Living Crisis is growing fast and our response is gaining momentum. Right now is the time for us all to come together in unity and build our collective resistance.
‘’Now is the time to get out onto the streets to send a clear message to the government that we refuse to pay for their crisis.’’
Laura Pidcock, national secretary of the People’s Assembly, who will be speaking at the Liverpool protest, added: “What people are experiencing is intolerable. No matter how patiently we explain that Government inaction over soaring energy and fuel costs and sharply rising food prices is deepening poverty, misery and hunger, it is met with at best indifference and at worst more of the same.
“The truth is they are so wedded to the economic system we have, comfortable with a hands-off approach, that even when markets are obviously failing us, they continue with business as usual. We tell them about children going hungry and the Government shrug, politically speaking. Our anger and frustration with them must be directed and organised to build pressure on them.”
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