March 26 March for Alternative - LIVE INFO SHARE

[Steel Icarus]

Thread for sharing info - between those in different parts of the march and those urbz watching the media.

 

[Steel Icarus]

@March26March reporting on Twitter that Westminster Station and Hungerford Bridge closed - go east as Victoria Embankment Packed.

 

[weepiper]

this is the front of the march just now, at the Embankment, people going back as far as St Paul's

http://yfrog.com/h8y4iwkj

 

[lopsidedbunny]

Police has big roit shields next to the cabinet office! Not your small ones... hidden..

 

[Steel Icarus]

Brilliant.

ETA I meant Weeps' post, not LSB's.

 

[lopsidedbunny]

Oh can you lot go around in circles like them pro fox hunter did some years ago???

 

[audiotech]

Copper on defending kettling.

Prentis from Unison on.

BBC reporter with plumb in gob fixated on talking about "other elements".

 

[DJ Squelch]

Ed Balls getting hassled by some bloke going on about "paedophile rings" on BBC new channel a moment ago.
On the march with his wife (Yvette Cooper of course), kids & Harriet Harman apparently. Milliband not on the march.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Police has big roit shields next to the cabinet office! Not your small ones... hidden..

Hidden where?

 

[Steel Icarus]

@March26March

Please don't try and join the march from the front by coming down Northumberland Ave. It's full on the Embankment. Move down Strand.

Very crowded at front. Head for Blackfriars.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

@March26March

Please don't try and join the march from the front by coming down Northumberland Ave. It's full on the Embankment. Move down Strand.

Very crowded at front. Head for Blackfriars.

are you there Steely?

 

[Steel Icarus]

are you there Steely?

No. At home oop North. Lots of windows open on my PC.

http://socialcam.com/v/2D8rEllK

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

BBC

Difficult to gauge how many people are here, but the numbers are huge

 

[lopsidedbunny]

I think behind the "street furnishing" i.e. bomb barrier or next to the cabinet office building...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No. At home oop North. Lots of windows open on my PC.

http://socialcam.com/v/2D8rEllK

ah right. Never heard of that website

Looks good though, right in the thick of things

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think behind the "street furnishing" i.e. bomb barrier or next to the cabinet office building...

Ah I see. Are they stopping everyone walk on that side of the concrete "street furnishing" then?

 

[Geri]

Just saw Billy Bragg at the front (on BBC News 24).

 

[Guineveretoo]

It is off. They are moving.

 

[audiotech]

Police estimate 450,000

 

[Steel Icarus]

Just seen pics on News24. Looks fucking awesome, in the proper sense of the word.

And they don't look like a bunch of anarchist trouble-makers to me.

They're US.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Police estimate 450,000

Police estimates always differ wildly to what protestors' estimates are

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just seen pics on News24. Looks fucking awesome, in the proper sense of the word.

And they don't look like a bunch of anarchist trouble-makers to me.

They're US.

Like to see the police start bashing all those OAPs, wheelchair users and kids

Think the police are going to have to be a bit better behaved on this one

 

[Lakina]

Good luck everyone! I wish i was there with you. Stick it to them!

 

[audiotech]

Police estimates always differ wildly to what protestors' estimates are

Is the pope, bears in woods etc

 

[Geri]

Like to see the police start bashing all those OAPs, wheelchair users and kids

Think the police are going to have to be a bit better behaved on this one

They'll wait until later, when all the coaches have gone, and attack some stragglers.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

They'll wait until later, when all the coaches have gone, and attack some stragglers.

I'd give it 'til maybe 6.00pm(ish)!

 

[audiotech]

BBC reporter: "Some people have even brought their children."

 

[Guineveretoo]

Like to see the police start bashing all those OAPs, wheelchair users and kids

Think the police are going to have to be a bit better behaved on this one

The police never would have gone for the main march. Watch out what happens with the breakaway and feeder marches.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

BBC reporter: "Some people have even brought their children."

Shocking. Did he mention some people are wheelchairs users as well and some are OAPs?

(Which reminds me of a comment in the Daily Mail the other day after a DLA story. One of the comments was asking how people on DLA are managing to go to the protest as they're obviously not that disabled)

 

[audiotech]

Shocking. Did he mention some people are wheelchairs users as well and some are OAPs?

Not a 'him', but some female reporter who it's clear by her comments views demonstrations through distorted lenses, probably supplied by police opticians.