A day of strike action in Job Centres and tax offices was marked by a rally of union activists and supporters in Bradford’s Memorial Garden at lunchtime today.

Campaigners against the scheduled closure of tax offices including the HMRC office in Centenary Court and those fighting Governemt cuts across the public sector gathered beneath the PCS banner to here speakers call for increased opposition.

Public and Commercial Services Union Bradford Secretary Rob Williams told the two dozen people present that because the BBC had announced it was looking for a new Dr Who – he wished to nominate Prime Minister David Cameron: “Because he’s managed to take our whole society back to the Victorian age,” Mr Williams said.

Paul Tillyer, of HMRC in Bradford, said it was ludicrous to cut jobs at a time when tax was wages was desperately needed and said the problem lay with large-scale tax avoidance.

“And estimated £123 billion is lost each and every year in uncollected, avoided or evaded tax.

“We need to close those gaps,” he said.

Work and pensions staff and HMRC staff took action at job centres and tax offices in Bradford, Keighley and Shipley as part of Yorkshire-wide union action.