Damn it.
Now it’s going to take me longer to get from the South Bank to LSE.

Has anyone spotted snipers on roof tops?

That’s become highly fashionable this year in many places as the most effective way of policing anti-government demos.

Just asking.

bob! that’s a Libyan tactic

@2

Diogenes knows these things Bob B from his time as a green flag waving Gaddafi loyalist…. after all, they’ll need advisers on the ground setting up the targets won’t they?

I guess the people on the march were ones that couldn’t be bothered with the Wales v England match.

And pubs up and down the country will have been full of people watching the football, who wouldn’t want to go on a march like this even if it was passing by right outside.

Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

Blue slob.

Two frames that delver blue slob.

I do not know whether the blue slob contains information. Not a fucking clue.

Every second, blue slob refreshes, Before I can read the last announcement Blue Slob changes.

Absolutely nothing that converts minds.

Well I’m glad to be home again and glad I marched with the whole family. It’s a pity those rioting parasites have dominated the coverage.

@8 Pfft, if it was a rioting parasite that lone person would have dominated the coverage.
How the fuck is “protest conducted peacefully” going to sell newspapers or get people tuning into your news channel? Especially when you can just make something up about Kelly Brook that is likely to shift more copies instead.

@7 Even…

From this newscast, the Anarchists at the Demo seem to have been well-organised
http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn

All together: The Anarchists united will never be defeated

@Cylux

I’ve only watched the BBC but they have taken pains to explain that there was a huge turnout and the demo was a peaceful family event. Of course they subsequently concentrated on unfolding events with parasites rioting. It was news, I suppose.

I would have liked them to show more footage of the extent of the main event and the variety of people there, but in all the marches and rallies I’ve been to they never have.

Why wouldn’t Sunny answer the question by bbc re financial institution being responsible for recession? He spieled on about gov institutions but seemed to avoid covering banks……

@11 I don’t doubt that every news outlet will include statements about how the vast majority were peaceful, then do their damnedest to ensure that the only thing people remember about the march was the violence by the few.

Question is, if there was no violence or indeed anticipation of violence, would the news outlets have even bothered to cover it, or at least to the extent that will be done now?

As for violence, try this:

AP: Protest in London against cuts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUYrIr_l8UA

Occupation of Fortnum & Mason store
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12871359

Woah I’m sooo tired. Sorry for lack of updates. Will write something tomorrow. Just got home. Am knackered.

Good march, nice feeling of civil solidarity that will hopefully build for the future.
Been infuriated by the BBC coverage though, all their reporters seem to be aggressive closet tories these days, never challenging utter scum like that guy from the vile IEA when they trot out the usual trite and shallow soundbites, but interrupting anyone from the other side almost continuously with carbon copies of the government line.

Ok, do we all feel better now we’ve had a bit of a protest?

I only ask because I just can’t seem to square the whole anti-cuts agenda with the fact that my girlfriend will be getting up tomorrow to work a 12 hour shift in a care home at £6.20 an hour, of which around a fifth will go out straight to the government.

Yes, she’s one of these ‘hard working people’ you lot claim to support, yet you object to any spending reductions that could be used to lower her tax burden. She doesn’t want government handouts, she just wants to be allowed to keep what she’s earned through the sweat of her brow. It would seem that she’s in the minority.

Denmark has been confirmed as the OECD’s highest-tax country, followed by Sweden. By reports, Denmark’s Gini co-efficient shows it to have the least inequality of post-tax income distribution among countries for which income distribution data are available :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

Strangely, according to Eurostat data, Denmark is not therefore languishing as an impoverished failed-state or even in the lengthening queue applying for EU bailouts, indeed it comes out as one of the most affluent countries in the EU even if it isn’t in the Eurozone. By other assessments, it also appears that Denmark is the ‘happiest place on earth’:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5224306.stm

What can be wrong?

Biased media coverage, attacking one side, only concentrating on the minority spasmodic violence?

Sounds like the coverage the EDL get every time they DARE to march against yet another mosque going up in the UK in the name of the most intolerant, illiberal religion in the world…whilst Christians get murdered and arrested for ‘blasphemy’ and their churches routinely get burnt down in Islamic dominated countries no less.

Not nice is it guys? Best be careful what you approve of next time.
LOL!

18
Most of us want to keep the majority of our wages but then we want to have the best public services.
The vast majority of employees in the private service/retail industry are paid nothing more than the miniumum wage but that’s OK because if you have children you can apply for tax credits, financed by your girlfriend and other hard-working people, no, she isn’t in a minority.
The rise in private sector care with its’ low pay isn’t a reason to press for a reduction in public sector pay and conditions, although it’s happening.

@20 sod off dave you racist twat

@18

D’uh!

Since when was ‘Islam’ a race?!

hey, 22…I’ll agree I’m racist IF…IF…you can describe to me what this ‘race’ looks like.
Even something small like skin colour, main country of origin, language?
Anything?
Asian? Arab? African? British? French? Black? White? OH RIGHT! It’s ALL of them!
Wow…that’s one diverse fucking race!

You PC cretin!
Muslims are no more a race than Catholics or Jedi’s!

Just because MOST of this religion are not white (although there are plenty who are), generally western and especially not American you ‘liberals’ run scared or worse…forgive things you would NEVER forgive if a group of non-Muslim white Americans did them.
Shame on you!

Racist!?
Oh the pseudo-liberal left and their choking appeasement of the most illiberal, violently sexist, murderously homophobic, bigoted, medieval entity crawling over the globe today.
Islam makes even Catholicism look like a Gay Pride march!

Liberalism?
Pricks like you shame the word.

If you can’t see the difference between a march specifically attacking a (small and relatively powerless) sector of the community and an inclusive march defending the unity of all peoples against attack by extremely powerful forces then you are clearly lacking a brain cell or two (trillion)

@24 If some Muslims of a fanatical bent decide to do evil things in the name of their religion then we all do condemn those responsible. However, building a mosque is not an evil thing worthy of protest.
Plus those crimes you would have Islam held responsible for tend to happen in repressive autocratic states, just because Islam is used as the justification for the oppression of the people, rather than Stalinism or Christianity, does not mean that all Muslims or Islam in general are evil.

Never said ALL Muslims were anything.
Some are not as devout as others.
Some are bravely trying (though never helped by so called liberal non-Muslims of course) to change and reform Islam and risk death to do so.
I never said ALL Muslims were anything!

As for Islam though, in it’s undiluted, 1000 year old form…it ranks right up there in the ‘worse things in the world to have any kind of power’ list.
And it will do until it goes through a reformation.
Sorry…truth hurts.

And Joe…LOL! I loved this;
“”(small and relatively powerless)”"

You mean the fastest growing religion in the country, the fastest growing part of the UK population and one that is so ‘powerless’ it has carried out (basically UNIQUELY) countless successful and attempted terrorist actions that have seen hundreds of them jailed, thousands of them ‘on watch’ and have also racked up a nice little body count.

Powerless?
They fucking well run half of London, have reduced whole areas of our cities to medieval enclaves (packed with ACKNOWLEDGED first cousin/in-breeding disabilities, child rape, child marriage, and constant abuse/death of women…FACTS) and who routinely strap bombs onto themselves, or into cars, or on trains, or buses or planes is they don’t get their way!

And yes…that includes much recruiting, appeasing, supporting and brain washing (again ACKNOWLEDGED) from various mosques around the country.
Quite aside that when a mosque is built…the ENTIRE AREA becomes Islamised and non-Muslims are routinely, ethnically and culturally cleansed from what was once their home community.
FACT.

So actually…the EDL (and no, I’m not a member) march for a very good reason and who they march against are not a tiny group of powerless people!

And its got like this, in fact the EDL only exist because of this, because of pseudo-liberal apologist and appeasement of Islam for so many years.
Reap what YOU sow.

Oh bless Dave, he thinks he’s people.

Pointless marching?

See the future of the UK unfold.

THE biggest outside source of funding for British universities comes from Islamic sources.
That’s the highest education in the country, bankrolled AND controlled by Islam.

And as for our cities and this embracing of ‘moderation’ and ‘peace’ that we should respect concerning Islam…Look into the future again…

http://www.hudson-ny.org/1971/europe-most-islamic-community

Leicester, an industrial city in central England, is home to the most conservative Islamic population anywhere in Europe, according to American diplomatic cables that were obtained and recently released by the website, Wikileaks.

Leicester is also on track to become the first majority non-white city in British history.

The politically incorrect observation was made by a senior US State Department official who visited the city as part of an effort to engage Muslim communities in Europe.

It reflects how Leicester’s long-ballyhooed experiment with multiculturalism is being challenged by Muslim separatism and assertiveness.

A leaked diplomatic cable recounts the October 2007 visit of Farah Pandith, the US State Department’s Senior Advisor for Muslim Engagement, to Leicester The document says Pandith found the lack of integration of the Muslim community in Leicester to be “striking.”

The cable says, among other observations, Pandith was shocked to find;
“girls as young as four years old were completely covered.”

The document continues: “At a local book store, texts… seemed designed to segregate Muslims from their wider community, urging women to cover themselves and remain in their homes, playing up the differences between Islam and other religions, seeking to isolate Muslims from community, and feeding hate of Jews to the young.”

A new study by the think-tank Migration Watch UK shows that during the thirteen years that the last Labour government was in power (1997-2010), immigrants arrived in Britain at a rate of almost one a minute.

The sharp rise in Muslim immigration, however, is upsetting Leicester’s ethnic balance, and casting doubt upon the city’s multicultural future.

Muslim immigration has led to the proliferation of mosques in Leicester, which now has more than 200 mosques and madrassas [Islamic religious schools].
The huge Masjid Umar mosque has four towering minarets and a grand dome that displays Arabic calligraphy from the Koran.

The most influential Muslim in Leicester is Shaykh Abu Yusuf Riyadh-ul-Haq, a hard-line Muslim cleric who runs the Al Kawthar Academy, an Islamic school in the city.

Ul-Haq, who preaches in mosques across Britain, outlaws television and music, and says football is “a cancer that has infected our youth.”
He is appalled by young women who want to get educated and go to university. He regularly praises the work of the Taliban and their attacks against British troops in Afghanistan.

Other Islamic separatists have been linked to the University of Leicester, according to the recent report, “Radical Islam on UK Campuses.”

Meanwhile, Leicester has the fourth-highest rate of unemployment in Britain. The city also has very high rates of illiteracy, and ranks as one of the worst five municipalities in England for education.

An April 2010 survey titled “Muslims in Leicester” says that Muslims in the city are especially prone to underachievement and unemployment.

Muslims are now demanding political power within the Leicester city council, as well as the freedom to wear their religious dress at work and to have halal food in the city hospitals. They are also seeking their own faith-based schools.

One such school, the Leicester Islamic Academy — where female students wear the full-length dress and head-covering and the boys wear black robes and skullcaps — has been accused by the British government of promoting Islamic separatism.
A government official has warned that Britain is “sleepwalking to segregation.”

He said: “Segregation is now so extreme in some schools that there is not much farther it can go. It does not help to prepare children in these schools for the real world.”

Truth hurts!

The bit that really puzzles me, and *should* worry any of ukuncut supporters, is the complete lack either before, during, or after (we’re over 24 hours now) of any condemning of violent trouble makers. No dont bother turning up, help the police deal with them, or anything to show they dont support violent protests.

Infact one tweet I read tonight from Aaron Peters suggests he sees no issue with the way the protest escalated.

For just one day couldnt UK Uncut simply march and show solidarity with the cuts movement rather than trying to undo work done by the unions and its members to highlight anti-cuts movements and massive public service cuts and job losses?

Oh no, invading stores is much more productive to stopping your library getting shut, or your gran having her care home shut down and then her meals on wheels removed. Her winter fuel payments stopped….

Then we have the propaganda trouble makers taking to twitter and tweeting any old rubbish to fuel hatred. Crap about Sky paying protesters to be violent, police being “Agent provocateur’s” and making them do it, to complete nonsense about people being released and their cash and phones being confiscated/not returned.

WHEN the Sky nonesense is proved crap, and Sky have pursued those for the liable, the movement will have lost all credability.

The Agent provocateur comments are laughable. So how about I stab someone to death, then claim whoever left the knife in the kitchen drawer made me do it by leaving it there? Those committing the acts yesterday did so THEMSELVES.

The public will be further alienated from UK Uncut, and eventually any meaningful resistance to the cuts will have been destroyed by a group of kids thinking this is what protesting is about.