UK campaigners target deputy PM house

Hundreds of activists descended on Clegg’s home in Putney, south-west London, just before 1pm on Saturday, local media reported.

Disabled campaigners had secured the quiet residential street shortly beforehand by chaining their wheelchairs together, according to a report by the Guardian.

“Nick Clegg is one of the architects of austerity. He’s a millionaire and lives in a million-pound home”, said a UK Uncut supporter, Jean Sandler.

“The cuts are a political choice of this government and
the cabinet of out-of-touch millionaires. They are not necessary. No one voted for Cameron and Clegg’s disastrous plan that means that we end up paying for the banks’ crisis”, added the campaigner.

The demonstration was one of 11 alternative street parties around the country organized by UK Uncut in what is expected to be a series of protests in the lead-up to next weekend’s jubilee celebrations and the Olympics later in the summer.

Around 400 demonstrators occupied the street outside Clegg’s house setting out blankets on the floor and sharing food. Scores of uniformed and plainclothes police officers watched as musicians performed and activists made speeches.

UK Uncut has said the street parties are designed to resist the government’s cuts and celebrate alternatives to austerity.

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