Today, Oxford County Councillors voted to cut 21 youth centres and a range of youth work projects across Oxfordshire.
Young people from youth centres under threat protested outside the cabinet meeting, begging for money from inside cardboard boxes in a graphic demonstration of what David Cameron's 'Big Society' will mean for the youth service. However, Tory councillors ignored them, focusing once again on the implementation of government policy, rather than representing the people who elected them.
It seems clear now that the County Council is incapable of listening to the views of people across.Oxfordshire. How long will we let this situation continue, where politicians dictate policies to people?
As Mark Serwotka said to the Scottish TUC yesterday, "We've marched for the alternative, we've argued for the alternative. Now its time to strike for the alternative."
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