[OccupySheffield] Austerity Suicides: Debt the Ripper stalks Europe

[David Kirkham]

Struggling with money has proven to be an unbearable burden for a Greek pensioner - who has shot himself dead in a square in central Athens. It's just one of a string of suicides across the EU, caused by financial desperation and the continuing, harsh austerity measures. RT's Tesa Arcilla reports from Brussels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQq0W-mpYg
 "These are the cuts coming into the effect...We've talked about this for 6 months, what's going to happen, now people are feeling it, in the letters they're getting from the DWP and HMRC, feeling it in their bank accounts and they're thinking 'where do I turn to for help'. 
 
Well, the help has just been cut"
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17622504#TWEET121822


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Those of you getting over £150,000 and actually paying the top rate of tax, rather than doing everything you can to avoid it; you're due a tax cut next year. 
 
David 
 

 


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