Austerity protests turn violent in London – answers
questions
- What are ‘austerity cuts’? a government policy to reduce public spending dramatically
- How are public spending cuts described? as ‘deep’
- Which verb is used to describe how people are making their objections known? to voice ‘voicing their objections’
- How many people joined the demonstration? over 250,000
- When was the last big demonstration seen in London? in 2003 against the war in Iraq
- Why is the women interviewed marching today? because she is against the cutbacks
- What could happen next week? any of the marchers could be out of a job
- How many police officers were on duty? 4,500
- What happened to the protest later? it became violent
- How did the Prime Minister respond? he said he was ‘cleaning up the mess left by the previous Labour government’