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April 1st tea party in London next week. Apparently.
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Next week, it's the G20 summit - or the "Save My Job By Basking In Obama's Reflected Glory" summit as Gordon Brown would have it. Our scarily profligate Prime Minister has spent the last few weeks getting himself ready for this, pretending that everybody agrees with his analysis that we must piss yet more money up against a wall in order to get out of the recession. The Czech PM doesn't, nor do France and Germany and closer to home, neither does Mervyn King. Much the same can be said about anyone with a brain, who can see that the idea of spending yet more money in order to deal with our enormous debts is utter lunacy.
According to the Telegraph: "The G20 conference will lead to a London 'lockdown' next week, with parks, roads and businesses closed to keep world leaders safe, Government officials are warning. Protesters with armed with buckets and spades are among several thousand people who are planning to bring chaos to the heart of central London..."
Sorry, what was that? Buckets and spades? What the fuck are they gonna be doing - having a tea party and sandwiches?! :eek2: As the Telegraph were saying...
"...More than 1,000 officials and diplomats are expected in the capital, including the leaders of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, for the G20 London Summit."
It also seems that the prize turds who run the Federation of Small Businesses are advising City workers to "dress down" next week, presumably to help make sure that a baying mob doesn't tar and feather them. It makes you wonder just what the police think they'll be up against, doesn't it? Is this going to be the start of the summer of rage that the Met were talking about - or are the cops just exaggerating in order to scare people away?
According to the Telegraph: "The G20 conference will lead to a London 'lockdown' next week, with parks, roads and businesses closed to keep world leaders safe, Government officials are warning. Protesters with armed with buckets and spades are among several thousand people who are planning to bring chaos to the heart of central London..."
Sorry, what was that? Buckets and spades? What the fuck are they gonna be doing - having a tea party and sandwiches?! :eek2: As the Telegraph were saying...
"...More than 1,000 officials and diplomats are expected in the capital, including the leaders of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, for the G20 London Summit."
It also seems that the prize turds who run the Federation of Small Businesses are advising City workers to "dress down" next week, presumably to help make sure that a baying mob doesn't tar and feather them. It makes you wonder just what the police think they'll be up against, doesn't it? Is this going to be the start of the summer of rage that the Met were talking about - or are the cops just exaggerating in order to scare people away?
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The buckets and spades incidentally refer to people bringing in sackfuls of sand, pouring them on various roads and creating impromtu 'beaches' and playgrounds for kids. Hardly hardcore anarchists planning wreckage.
But speaking of discontent, maybe the attack on the house of the RBS's ex-boss last night was just the beginning...
Perhaps this is a sweeping generalisation but these anarcho-hippy types don't appear to be exceptionally bright and, seeing someone in a suit, might leap to a conclusion that they're a 'greedy banker' ((c) Daily Mail et. al.), using his feet merely to walk from his sports car to his helicopter, and do something outside the realms of peaceful protest. Spidey sense is tingling a bit so best not to take any precautions in case a moron or two decide to kick off.
Perhaps mercifully, none of them get up before at least 10am and the protests are planned to start at 11 so we'll all be safely at work by then, swimming around in our big money pools like Scrooge McDuck.
There were a couple of instances of violent protests about a decade ago centred around the 1st of May, and even then it was businesses that were targetted, not people.
Do not believe everything you read or hear from the authorities or from the papers.