The House of Lords were set to debate the government’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill on the 11th October 2011, with almost 100 peers requesting to talk in the debate. A vote on the Bill is expected the following day.

‘Block the Bridge, Block the Bill’ was organised by UK Uncut as a spectacular act of mass civil disobedience. By blocking Westminster Bridge, UK Uncut intended to symbolically block the Bill getting from Parliament to the hospitals.