just to note – as i have done on several other blogs – that any photos taken on Oxford Street are NOT of the TUC march.

i know that nobheads smashing up shops or people doing circus tricks are more photogenic than teachers waving flags, but still.

the majority of these photos are of the uk uncut activities, not of the TUC march.

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I noticed that too. This morning I looked through the videos and reports online to catch up. It was notable how often this confusion was made. Then I found some footage of the march with all its noise and banners. It’s pretty dull in comparison.

What more evidence do we need that news is entertainment?

i have a fair amount of time for the aims of uk uncut, by the way. but this wasn’t their marchm and it wasn’t a ‘black bloc’ march either.

i find its hijacking by both – even ‘just to have a party in trafalgar square’ – utterly repellent. the mood on the march was brilliant, right up to the point i ended up surrounded by young men with their faces covered. i nipped off for a pint at that point – those people weren’t signed up to the aims of the march, and they sure as hell weren’t marching with their unions. even the less radical students’ chants from their November protests weren’t really on message, as they pretty quickly realised.

organise a march yourselves, organise days of action yourselves. occupy wherever you want, if you feel like it. but you’re not TUC members and you’re not on board with the aims of Saturday’s march.

stop sullying the TUC’s name with these stupid acts of vandalism.

Ah, good point. I’ll make that clear.

cheers.

And so it was! The TUC march for an ‘alternative’ and for ‘fairness’ was exceptional in attendance with supporters from all over the country demonstrating their diligent ethical stance against a punitive Tory led coalition government. And, so moving in noting the sheer variety of people young and old, families with toddlers, disabled in wheel chairs or with walking stick. One marveled at all shape and size of human form and animation particularly those, perhaps, rather too portly to manage an arduous route, were impelled by the rightness of the cause and with self-discipline to join the joyous throng. What a throng crowded into Hyde Park to picnic to rest, to meet old friends and to be enraptured by rousing speeches. And how appropriate a Northern brass band (it seemed to me) epitomised a staged interlude with that particular musical tradition in trumpet, trombone and triumphant sounding cymbal? A spoken Londoner I was so impressed with Union Leaders passionately encouraging in accents that you just knew originated from Britain’s true heart. And, still a never ending stream with colourful banners came marchers and campaigners for ‘fairness’ hour after hour with such positive vibes, vuvuzalers, whistles, chants and determined demeanour all knowing that our march had to send out its alternative message to a discredited Tory led coalition government.

@ Rob

Those bloody vuvuzelas. As I had a headache due to a cold I felt that there should be a special circle in hell for their inventor.

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