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This woman's home made placard reads "Fight war - not wars. Destroy power not people" during today's "Don't bomb Syria" demo in central London.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street to protest the government's determination to press ahead with air strikes on Syria.

Some protesters told me they feared that bombing Syria would only create more casualties which in turn would only help IS gain more local and international recruits to its' cause.

There was also no obvious end game as to what the ultimate goal of any war would be. Would, for instance, Syria's brutal dictator Assad be allowed to remain in power if all opposition in Syria was crushed by bombing ? It was also not clear as to how long the war might last or whether the U.K. might ultimately escalate its' involvement with the use of ground forces and all this action without any UN mandate.

There was also anger that at a time of unprecedented welfare cuts, Cameron was embarking the U.K. on action that would be highly costly to taxpayers even if also highly profitable to Britain's arms industry.

A poll in this morning's Daily Mirror suggested the U.K's population is divided and without a convincing popular mandate for David' Cameron's plan to bomb IS positions in Syria.

According to the paper

"48% back British air raids on the extremists, contrasted with 30% who want the RAF to stay out of the fight, and 21% who don’t know. But an overwhelming majority - 59% believe sending Tornado warplanes into action over Syria will increase the risk of terrorists inflicting carnage in the UK."


Get involved in the campaign of solidarity with all those standing against militarism and war in Syria and the Middle East -

<a href="http://www.stopwar.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">www.stopwar.org.uk/</a> or

<a href="http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/about/" rel="nofollow">veteransforpeace.org.uk/about/</a>

Sign the Don't Bomb Syria petition at

<a href="http://act.stopwar.org.uk/petition/3" rel="nofollow">act.stopwar.org.uk/petition/3</a>

Find out who your MP is and write to him/her with your opinion -

<a href="http://www.ukpolitical.info/Finder.htm" rel="nofollow">www.ukpolitical.info/Finder.htm</a>


If you need to contact me for any reason please email alisdare@gmail.com
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Author Alisdare Hickson from Woolwich, United Kingdom
Camera location51° 30′ 11.76″ N, 0° 07′ 34.37″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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