countryside riot in london!

[vimto]

Could someone point me in the direction of a TV news bulletin which showed toffs battling with cops. (Unless the word toff is being used as defining anyone from a rural area)

Did you not see some of the toffs with blood pouring from open wounds inflicted by plod?

 

[TeeJay]

Define "toff"

 

[vimto]

Define demonstrator

 

[tobyjug]

Did you not see some of the toffs with blood pouring from open wounds inflicted by plod?

No I didn't, the perception on U75 what a toff is seems very different to mine.

 

[bolshiebhoy]

I think we can all agree that the fine young chaps who invaded parliament are toffs. Brian Ferry's son and Luke - polo playing pal of Prince Charley - Tomlinson. Yeah toffs. If even the Sun this morning can talk of an inside job then we should demand to know what sinister sections of the state collaborated with this outrageous attack on the mother of democracies.

 

[WasGeri]

Interesting - some hunt supporter is just on Radio 5 and said she saw 'one of the most nasty animal rights protestors' in the crowd pretending to be a hunt supporter...

 

[redsquirrel]

and judging by the people I saw outside Stanlow refinery it highly inaccurate

gra

PS this is a humourous thread which I'm enjoying even tho' I'm supposed to be working on a reply to mp3 about 'national liveration' - oh events dear boy, events!

Sorry whats inaccurate?
Layabout's suggestion that LM somehow infiltrated the movement or what I posted?

 

[rednblack]

skipped the most of this thread, i just looked at the pics

great stuff toffs and yokels getting battered lovely

 

[Pickman's model]

On the afternoon of Wednesday, 15 September, elements of London Brigade Urban Alliance were on active service gathering intelligence on the countryside demonstration in Parliament Square.

In the course of the surveillance operation, the opportunity arose to capture the banner of the Union of Country Sports Workers. The Volunteers seized their chance and successfully withdrew from the area with their prize.

No casualties were sustained.

 

[rednblack]

those pictures of the squireocracy with blood streaming down their fat inbred faces where a joy to behold

fairplay to the UA and the coppers!

 

[cemertyone]

those pictures of the squireocracy with blood streaming down their fat inbred faces where a joy to behold

fairplay to the UA and the coppers!

God never thought i would agree with ya R&B.....but it was such a nice sight to behold..."Hi..tim but dim here...and the police are ACTUALLY like ya..hitting us...can you believe it?????simply awuful.......
oh how we laughed in brixton as you got your mullet heads smacked........whats good for the goose and all that.....over to you smiley

 

[cemertyone]

want me to email to you?

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yes if you can e-mail me posh totty...esp dressed up...god i would do ANYTHING for you!!!!

 

[Pickman's model]

Did you not see some of the toffs with blood pouring from open wounds inflicted by plod?

Yes!

 

[cemertyone]

Yes!

pickmans...who was taking offence to you taking the piss about these muppets getting there heads smaked in.......

 

[STFC]

Funny how so many of you are happy to see a few heads getting cracked. Can't wait for the next time the old bill get stuck into a group of lefties, you lot will be back to your old ways, bleating about the "oppressive instrument of the state" or some such nonsense.

 

[Yossarian]

Yeah, you're only about the fifth person to say that, try and keep up.

 

[stevendurrant]

rednblack and various other somewhat misled types:

Hunting is far from being the sole preserve of the "suireocricy" or whatever you call it.

Many of the thugs who like to watch animals being killed are (shock, horror) WORKING AND MIDDLE CLASS.

Sometimes they do it because they (wrongly) think it makes them a higher class than they are (not unlike golf)

The class issue in hunting is a total red herring, as is the rural / urban issue.

It is a cruelty issue: Begining, middle and end.

I happen to know some posh and some country types. They all find hunting disgusting.

 

[newbie]

Likely theory is they got jobs as casual construction workers in order to make their protest.

Loki, I'm curious. You posted this at 4.33 yesterday afternoon, 11 minutes after the first report on this thread of the intrusion. It's been confirmed today.

I watched Sky & BBC24 immediately after it happened and I didn't hear any mention of contractors, nor on later reports on the radio. Did I miss it? where did you get this from?

 

[Pickman's model]

Loki, I'm curious. You posted this at 4.33 yesterday afternoon, 11 minutes after the first report on this thread of the intrusion. It's been confirmed today.

I watched Sky & BBC24 immediately after it happened and I didn't hear any mention of contractors, nor on later reports on the radio. Did I miss it? where did you get this from?

it was on the bbc 10 o'clock news last night...

 

[Loki]

Many of the thugs who like to watch animals being killed are (shock, horror) WORKING AND MIDDLE CLASS.

I think most of us are well aware of that. An acquaintance of a mate of mine told me there's a regular dog fighting / cockfighting event he goes to, held somewhere in Kent and I'd describe this bloke as working class.

 

[DaveCinzano]

it was on the bbc 10 o'clock news last night...

it was indeed, during andrew marr's report (in which he also mentioned brian ferry's son)

 

[Darios]

It seems likely to me that these people can only have got in as guests of a (sympathetic) MP. Al Q might have trouble finding one of those.

I'm sure one of their old pals in the CIA from way back might be able to call in a favour or two.

 

[fishfingerer]

"You beastly commoners haven't heard the last of this by jingo!"

 

[nosos]

I think you'll find that there is a large dollop of irony in many of the comments made here, or at least I hope so.

I can't see what's wrong with the post.

 

[rednblack]

I think most of us are well aware of that. An acquaintance of a mate of mine told me there's a regular dog fighting / cockfighting event he goes to, held somewhere in Kent and I'd describe this bloke as working class.

but the point is - those are working class bloodsports and have been banned - fox hunting is mostly for poshos and hasnt been banned (at least until now) i don't hate fox hunting per se, i hate the squires and aristos who participate - i lived int eh countryside for 6 years and saw them first hand - they are the most repulsive, unpleasant, greedy, anti working class, racist, homophobic and backward sections of the population

my opposition is based on class hatred

 

[nino_savatte]

but the point is - those are working class bloodsports and have been banned - fox hunting is mostly for poshos and hasnt been banned (at least until now) i don't hate fox hunting per se, i hate the squires and aristos who participate - i lived int eh countryside for 6 years and saw them first hand - they are the most repulsive, unpleasant, greedy, anti working class, racist, homophobic and backward sections of the population

my opposition is based on class hatred

I'm going to agree with you there rnb. I used to live in the country myself and witnessed pretty much the same things.

I don't hold with the shabby dissimulation tactics used by the Countryside Alliance and their chums either. This 'town' versus 'country' argument of theirs overlooks certain facts: namely many of those living in the towns and cities once lived in the country themselves. and the fact that around 70% of those living in the country are against fox hunting. The town and the country need each other, but for them to claim that there is a gulf of understanding caused by an imaginary conflict between urban and rural values is false imo.

 

[Pickman's model]

The town and the country need each other, but for them to claim that there is a gulf of understanding caused by an imaginary conflict between urban and rural values is false imo.

it's a real conflict. are the enclosure laws so easily forgotten?

 

[nino_savatte]

it's a real conflict. are the enclosure laws so easily forgotten?[/QUOTE

Hardly (look at the ramblers) but I believe the tactic itself is highly questionable. Indeed my perception has always been that this has been led from the front by landed interests. It is a class thing.

 

[Pickman's model]

it's a real conflict. are the enclosure laws so easily forgotten?

Hardly (look at the ramblers) but I believe the tactic itself is highly questionable. Indeed my perception has always been that this has been led from the front by landed interests. It is a class thing.

it's going to be mighty humiliating for the evil hunt scum. and don't forget to chuckle when you think of the countryside alliance! i was chuffed to see the likes of the duke of baccleuch and hamilton chucking £750,000 away by giving it to the ca. all the toffs who have bankrolled the evil alliance have thrown their money in a cesspool!

 

[Pickman's model]

ha! that shut you up