On October 4th 2015 I was one of the 60,000 plus protesters, united in a protest against Conservatives outside of their Party Conference. Surrounded by a ring of steel, by Manchester police, private security companies, snipers on roofs and what appeared to be a helicopter flying around us, Conservative members watched over 60,000 protesters walking…
Month: October 2015
A Polarised Society or the Catalan Autumn?
Last 27th of September there were elections in Catalonia. They were transcendental elections, as the right-winged government of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC, ALDE in the European Parliament), led by the President Artur Mas, as well as the main centre-left party, Esquerra Repubicana de Catalunya (ERC, EFA in the EP) —both of them in a…