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Brixton Top Shop protest, 11am Sat 18th Dec

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Anyone coming along to this?

This Saturday we will be joining others up and down the country on high street protests against the Cuts and Tax Dodgers.

Meeting inside Topshop on Brixton Rd at 11am, we will peacefully and creatively close down the store, simply by getting in the way...

Nearby there is also Dorothy Perkins, part of Philip Green's Tax Dodging Empire, and a Vodafone store...

If you’re angry that the government is cutting services for the poorest and most vulnerable whilst letting the rich avoid billions in tax, then join us, even if you have never been on a protest before.

The government is determined to plough ahead with these savage, unnecessary, ideological cuts. But a growing protest movement is starting to stage the fight back. Be a part of it.

They'll be music, and a mic:
Calling for any MCs with a political message, to give to the streets of Brixton, Tax Dodgers and our Government. Come along, bring your rhymes and pick up the mic!

See you on the High Streets!
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Here's why:
Philip Green is a multi-billionaire businessman, who runs some of the biggest names on British high streets. His retail empire includes brands such as Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge and British Home Stores.

Philip Green is not a non-dom. He lives in the UK. He works in the UK. He pays tax on his salary in the UK. All seems to be in order. Until you realise that Philip Green does not actually own any of the Arcadia group that he spends every day running. Instead, it is in the name of his wife who has not done a single day’s work for the company. Mrs Green lives in Monaco, where she pays not a penny of income tax.

In 2005 Philip Green awarded himself £1.2bn, the biggest paycheck in British corporate history. But this dividend payout was channeled through a network of offshore accounts, via tax havens in Jersey and eventually to Green’s wife’s Monaco bank account. The dodge saved Green, and cost the tax payer, close to £300m. This tax arrangement remains in place. Any time it takes his fancy, Green can pay himself huge sums of money without having to pay any tax.

Philip Green’s £285m tax dodge could pay for:

The full, hiked up £9,000 fees for almost 32,000 students.
Pay the salaries of 20,000 NHS nurses.
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http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions/143
 
Unfortunately all that will happen is probably some criminal damage and a few easily misled people getting in trouble for it, the shop's security guard getting grief, and the low wage workers in there probably losing a couple of hours of pay whilst the mess caused is sorted out.

I don't have a problem with direct action, if people feel strongly about an issue, but isn't the boss the target, not those working in the shops, or those simply trying to get on and finish their christmas shopping?
 
What would you recommend? A strongly worded letter to Mr Green?



The thing about the protests is that it will economically hurt Mr Green, et al, and to put it in tabloid terms "it's the only language that they understand'. It's not like Topshop is the only clothes shop is it, or Vodafone the only phone networks is it?
 
And also going by all the previous uncut tax protests people suoergluing themselves to shop windows is likely to be the most violent action by the protesters
 
Whatever people think they have to agree that Philip Green is not being very Christian is he?
 
Badgers said:
I think if I was the manager of that Top Shop I would immediately send all the staff home and deal with it on my own.
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I would assume the management are aware of this, and will have arranged sufficient extra security staff (and no doubt requested some police presence too) to deal with any potential problems.
 
ohmyliver said:
And also going by all the previous uncut tax protests people suoergluing themselves to shop windows is likely to be the most violent action by the protesters
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As long as they are on the outside and don't block the doorways, personally I'd leave them there, especially as given tomorrow's weather forecast they might regret the superglue quite quickly...
 
ajdown said:
I would assume the management are aware of this, and will have arranged sufficient extra security staff (and no doubt requested some police presence too) to deal with any potential problems.
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You on the phone to the management?
 
Badgers said:
You on the phone to the management?
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No, I'm not, and hadn't planned to. I would guess that head office would have picked it up and sent relevant communications out in their weekly bulletins to alert individual stores of this planned action anyway.

I'm guessing that nobody's realised that there isn't actually such a thing as a "Top Shop" in Brixton but it's merely part of the first floor at Morleys - meaning that an entire department store of entirely innocent and unconnected departments and retailers could well be disrupted rather than just the actual target?
 
ajdown said:
No, I'm not, and hadn't planned to. I would guess that head office would have picked it up and sent relevant communications out in their weekly bulletins to alert individual stores of this planned action anyway.

I'm guessing that nobody's realised that there isn't actually such a thing as a "Top Shop" in Brixton but it's merely part of the first floor at Morleys - meaning that an entire department store of entirely innocent and unconnected departments and retailers could well be disrupted rather than just the actual target?
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You really are a pious and joyless person aren't you?
 
I just wonder how many people are going to turn up in the middle of Brixton bemusedly looking for a Top Shop and not realise it's upstairs in Morleys.
 
ajdown said:
If the shop ends up getting trashed and they get sent home?
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So how many shops have been "trashed" by earlier related actions? Any idea?

Or are you just trotting out ill informed alarmist shite because you really have no idea what you're babbling about?
 
It's downstairs ajdown, with a massive window display next to the busiest bus shops for miles around.
 
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