By Helen Collis
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Hundreds of anti-cuts protesters held an 'alternative street party' in the road where Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg lives.
Up to 400 people gathered in a south west London street playing music, performing comedy and making speeches, in the event organised by campaign group UK Uncut.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said there were no reported arrests outside the property in Putney, which anti-austerity campaigners targeted because of government cuts.
Demonstrators from UK Uncut said they targeted Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, at his home in Putney, south west London, because he is an 'architect of austerity'
Jean Sandler, 42, a UK Uncut supporter said: 'Nick Clegg is one of the architects of austerity; he's a millionaire and lives in a million pound home.
'The cuts are a political choice of this government and the Cabinet of out-of-touch millionaires, they are not necessary.
'No one voted for Cameron and Clegg's disastrous plan that means that we end up paying for the banks' crisis.
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'These cruel cuts are designed to destroy our public services, the NHS, the Welfare state and our future.
The campaign group are targeting high-profile individuals they blame for the coalition's spending cuts, as well as high street stores owned by Sir Philip Green, including Top Shop and Dorothy Perkins
Party vibe: Those joining the demonstrations include public sector workers, musicians and comedians
'Architect of austerity': UK Uncut are targeting high-profile individuals, including Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, pictured, they blame for the coalition's spending cuts
'The cuts are getting personal and so are our protests.'
The protest in London was part of a nationwide day of action, seeing anti-cuts street parties and road blocks take place in several UK cities.
Those joining the demonstrations include public sector workers, musicians and comedians.
They are targeting high-profile individuals they blame for the coalition's spending cuts, as well as high street stores owned by Sir Philip Green, including Top Shop and Dorothy Perkins.
Protesters have gathered at four meeting points in London, including one close to Parliament, and are holding a march through the centre of the city.
In Sheffield, about 40 activists also targeted Mr Clegg's local constituency office.
The campaigners criticise the Government's handling of the NHS and welfare system as well as the effect of its policies on women.
UK Uncut supporter Hannah Waters, in London, said: 'David Cameron has called on the country to celebrate the Jubilee with the 'mother of all our parties', while at the same time his government is cutting our welfare, our NHS, our rights, dismantling our future.
'Our street parties will bring the message home that these cuts are a political choice, a choice that is theirs, not ours, and we reject it.'
One protestor said the 'cruel cuts' were designed to 'destroy our public services, the NHS, the Welfare state and our future'
UK Uncut protestors are angry with the government for calling for the 'mother of all parties' for the Jubilee at the same time as cutting back on the NHS and welfare
In Sheffield, about 40 UK Uncut supporters gathered outside Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's constituency office.
There was a party atmosphere as the group put up tables and laid out cakes in the style of a 1940s street party outside the small office in the Fulwood area of the city.
One police officer and two police community support officers looked on as some demonstrators, including a man on stilts, danced while others enjoyed the cakes.
The protest in London was part of a nationwide day of action, seeing anti-cuts street parties and road blocks take place in several UK cities.
There was no sign of Mr Clegg or any Lib Dem workers.
The office is the party's HQ in the Deputy Prime Minister's Sheffield Hallam constituency.
One of the street party organisers, David Kirkham, said: 'We know that street parties are going to be quite the thing this summer, for one reason or another.
'We're here celebrating and partying for some great British institutions, namely, the welfare state, our NHS and the public sector life blood - things that were achieved by our ancestors in the post-war period.'
Mr Kirkham said the street party was evoking the 'spirit of 1948' when, he said, the great institutions of modern society were being built.
'Those things which were the greatest contribution to the UK, to civilised society are now being dismantled by politicians like Nick Clegg,' he said.
A spokesman for the deputy prime minister said: 'People have a right to peaceful protest.'
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