LCAP occupies RBS!

London Coalition Against Poverty occupies Royal Bank of Scotland building in the City.

On Monday 22nd, members and sympathisers of LCAP disrupted work at the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Dressed up as Santa Clauses, a group of people distracted the security guards while another group passed the security barrier and went upstairs to hand out flyers to RBS workers, including those on a trading floor. The flyers explained that, this year, city bankers will be getting large Christmas bonuses while four in ten children in London, and eight of ten in neighbouring borough of Tower Hamlets, live in poverty. With large cuts in funding to essential housing and welfare services, more and more poor folks are being turned to the streets and to charities for basic living supplies like food. The protesters were eventually pushed out to the street, where they handed out more flyers and held banners reading "Bonuses for the poor, not the rich". The demonstration ended peacefully.

Note.  LCAP's main activity is taking direct action to win improvements around small day to day issues.  The RBS action is an exception.  For another example of LCAP action, see the report of our recent action with temporary accomodation residents in Hackney.