I think they are utterly pointless, there is a huge deficit that needs paying, and none of the protesters seem to have any answers as to how we should be paying this.

Yes, people are suffering and yes, not everything that the government does is right, but no matter which government got into power this was going to happen, the Labour chancelor Alister Darling stated clearly that if labour got back in that the cuts he would impose would be worse than the Thatcher era.

We in the west should probaly accept that our standard of living is unsustainable, it has been for a while, we live on a planet with limited resources coupled with a growing global population that wish to live like us...we can't have infinite growth to keep everybody happy and cosy.

Todays adults may well have seen the best times we will have for a very long time (I'm talking generations here, not a few years)