Scores of protesters continue to camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London as part of a worldwide demonstration against what they see as international tax injustice.

Reporter Jack Zorab spoke to one camp member, Ali, 26, a social work student from Crystal Palace, about her reasons for protesting.

Q. Why are you at Occupy London?

A. I’m here because I don’t believe the government should allow banks and big corporations to run them. We’re the people- we should be in control of our government.

Q. What’s the protest all about?

A. Well it’s not just about finance. We’re supposed to live in a democracy but you vote once every four years and aside from that where do you have your choices? With the Blair government they put it to a public vote whether we should go to war. The country said no. That, kind of, flies in the face of democracy. It’s been portrayed a lot in the media that we don’t know what we are really here for. We do, it’s in the initial statement- black and white. We differ on small things. It’s ridiculous how people seize on this and say "they don’t know what they’re talking about."

Q. How are you involved in the camp?

A. Well I’m just a day tripper. In the day I go to Stratford to study and then I come back here. I help out in the kitchen when I can, because I’m not here every 24 hours it’s something I can pick up very quickly. I do sleep here occasionally, but I have to go home and feed my cat.

Q. How long can you stay?

A. At the moment, things look like we’ve got permission to stay here until after New Year. How much after then, I don’t know. The ones who take it less seriously could well go when the weather gets nasty. But there are some people who are here because they have nowhere else to go – that is their reason for protesting.

Q. What can the protest achieve?

A. It can open people’s eyes to what’s going on. Yes we get some dirty looks from people when I’m wearing my mask but – it’s like, hold on – are you not having trouble getting a job? Are you not having trouble with your benefits? Are your children not going to get the EMA? It terms of real change, there’s a quote in a film I watched last night which says; "People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people."