(MENAFN) Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the United Kingdom to protest rising living costs and inflation.
All major UK cities, including the capital London, hosted "Enough is Enough" marches on Saturday, coordinated by labor unions and climate change campaigners.
"People can't continue to live like this," Tim, one of the protestors at King's Cross, said, demanding a salary increase to keep up with growing inflation, a first in 40 years.
"I have colleagues at work who have worked out their weekly money and they can't afford to actually live once they pay their fuel bills and once they pay all the other rising costs," he asserted.
"One of my colleagues, his rent's gone up 17 percent just last week, 17%! We're not getting any kind of pay raise like that. Our pay raise at the moment was something about 8 percent. That's a massive pay cut for us," he highlighted. "That's why we're here today. Supporting the RMT (Maritime and Transport Union) and the CWU (Communication Workers Union), the post office (who) are on strike today, as well, because it's time for working people to get together and to take action."
Helen, another demonstrator at King's Cross, stated that she was come to oppose the present right-wing administration.
She stated the nation’s latest prime minister is "on the far, far right ... people are going to really suffer in all sorts of ways."
"And we don't know where it's going to end. We need to get rid of them. We need to get rid of this Tory government."
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