UK Uncut throws street party at deputy PM Nick Clegg's home - London

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Ever-increasing numbers of police reinforcements block the road at the UK Uncut street party outside the Putney home of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.

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Protesters hold a large banner which reads "Don't Cut Our Future".

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A UK Uncut protester wearing a "V-Mask" and waving a large "Anonymous" flag stands on a gate-post outside Nick Clegg's Putney home during the street party.

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A protester wearing a "V-Mask" waves a large "Anonymous" flag at the street party.

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A string of bunting which reads "Fare Rights" - referring to high transport costs in the capitol - is hung across the police line.

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The UK Uncut Comedy policeman holds an anti-austerity placard in front of the police line.

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UK Uncut protesters at the street party hold placards which read "You Are The Revolutionists" as they eat their picnic lunch.

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Bunting is strung across the road as the UK Uncut protesters hold their street party.

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A sigh taped to a fence post reads "Do Not Obey".

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UK Uncut dancers entertain the crowd at the Great London Street Party outside deputy prime minister Nick Clegg's Putney home.

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The UK Uncut Comedy Policeman encourages the police to arrest "Tax Dodgers" at the street party.

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A samba drummer carries her large drum to the street party.

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A protester unravels her banner which reads "Greece Is The Word" at the street party.

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The UK Uncut protesters and their police escort on their way to the street party at Nick Clegg's Putney home.

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Musicians entertain the crowd at the street party.

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The UK Uncut protesters are entertained by dancers at the street party.

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Police create a sterile area in the middle of the road, keeping the UK Uncut protesters away from the entrance to deputy prime minister Nick Clegg's Putney home.

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Balloons tied to a street sign near Nick Clegg's Putney home during UK Uncut's Great London Street Party.

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Bunting is strung across the road as UK Uncut protesters hold their street party outside Nick Clegg's Putney home.

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A dancer at the UK Uncut street party wears a bright pink feathered mask.

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Protesters with banners, flags and bunting fill the road outside Nick Cleg's Putney home. A large "Anonymous" flag waves in the breeze.

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Protesters with banners, flags and bunting fill the road outside Nick Cleg's Putney home.

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Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) activists at the street pary.

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Snacks and treats are passed amongst the crowd at the street party outside Nick Clegg's house.

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UK Uncut protesters outside Nick Clegg's Putney home hold clusters of placards.

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Around two hundred UK Uncut, and Occupy LSX activists congregated in the leafy streets of Putney and held an impromptu street party outside the family home of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to protest against the government's austerity cuts.

Assembling initially at four different london locations - Parliament Square, University College Hospital on Gower Street, London Bridge and the concourse in Waterloo Station and representing four distinct protest 'blocs' (NHS cuts, Welfare cuts, cuts to Women's services and the worsening state of democracy in the UK), around two hundred UK Uncut, Occupy LSX and Disabled People Against Cuts activists met up at Waterloo Station and embarked en-mass on the overground train to Putney where they headed off to throw an impromptu street party - complete with bunting, cakes, sandwiches, bubbles, samba drummers and a band - outside the London home of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, watched and prevented from getting right outside his front door by a large number of police and under the disapproving glares of Mr. Clegg's neighbours, who were generally appalled at this invasion of their leafy sanctuary by cuts protesters.