Fuck the Tory government

[comrade spurski]

Is there any evidence that it might be a provocateur? Have there been any confirmed examples of provocateurs doing similar in the UK before?

We are a democracy. ..there is no way that the police would infiltrate legal and peaceful campaign groups with the aim of discrediting and undermining them...that would only happen in johnny foreigner countries which do not share british values of justice and freedom

 

[smokedout]

Is there any evidence that it might be a provocateur? Have there been any confirmed examples of provocateurs doing similar in the UK before?

they've done a lot more than that: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-spy-animal-rights-overturn-conviction-appeal
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-spy-animal-rights-overturn-conviction-appeal
was a good day, up to 2000 strong at its peak, a bit unfocussed, a bit well behaved at times, but a good start - and a huge police response for what was really very little other than disruption

 

[shaman75]

Cracking demo. Loads of people, lots of different groups and a general fuck you attitude. Shame about the memorial, but it'll clean off I guess. Guess it keeps people in work. The tories should be happy.

 

[treelover]

Cracking demo. Loads of people, lots of different groups and a general fuck you attitude. Shame about the memorial, but it'll clean off I guess. Guess it keeps people in work. The tories should be happy.

Eh, the tabloids will be full of it tomorrow, not good?

 

[shaman75]

Didn't say it was good and I think many protesters were disappointed. Just remarked that it will clean off.

Media wasn't exactly providing a detailed and balanced account of the day as it stood anyway.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Media wasn't exactly providing any account of the day as it stood anyway.

Bit of fiddling to make that accurate

 

[shifting gears]

Bit of fiddling to make that accurate

That's not accurate - both bbc and itv have features on it

ETA - on their websites at least, not seen the tv news

 

[Thunderfist]

That kettle thing looks really fucking annoying . Thankfully they don't do it over here

They will.

 

[Artaxerxes]

That's not accurate - both bbc and itv have features on it

ETA - on their websites at least, not seen the tv news

About time then, I've been checking since 5pm and there wasn't a fucking thing

 

[smokedout]

bbcnews24 just mentioned it, according to them there were just a hundred protesters but they still managed to injure five coppers, destroy a war memorial and 17 of them were arrested.

there wasn't much press there, it was big and largely spontaneous, sounds like the beeb are just parroting the old bills press statement

 

[shifting gears]

bbcnews24 just mentioned it, according to them there were just a hundred protesters but they still managed to injure five coppers, destroy a war memorial and 17 of them were arrested.

there wasn't much press there, it was big and largely spontaneous, sounds like the beeb are just parroting the old bills press statement

Yep and the footage was as predictable as ever - a few filth getting a light pelting

 

[Plumdaff]

There was a report on BBC News at Ten which focused on how it was only one day into government, police getting hurt and the graffiti. Then went on about dull concert close by which I imagine was partly reason for police response, well that and a message of future intent.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

We are a democracy. ..there is no way that the police would infiltrate legal and peaceful campaign groups with the aim of discrediting and undermining them...that would only happen in johnny foreigner countries which do not share british values of justice and freedom

Equally there are a few 'class war' nutcases who would happily do that anyway, n'est pas?

 

[Wilf]

Spraying the memorial was fucking silly, but forget that. Nice one to all who showed their face today, that's what counts.

 

[shaman75]

Always picked last at school by entoptika, on Flickr

 

[Maharani]

I'm loving the use of the coloured powders, it really freaks the pigs out!

Sense this is one of many protests to come this summer and I doubt they will be peaceful.

 

[peterkro]

JUDY COLLINS MARAT/SADE LYRICS

HOMAGE TO MARAT
From "Marat / Sade"
(Adrian Mitchell / Richard Peaslee)
Peter Weiss


Four years after the revolution and the old king's execution
Four years after I remember how those courtiers took their final vow
String up every aristocrat
Out with the priests Let them live on their fat
Four years after we started fighting
Marat keeps on with his writing
Four years after the Bastille fell
He still recalls the old battle yell
Down with all of the ruling class
Throw all the generals out on their arse
Good old Marat by your side we'll stand or fall
You're the only one that we can trust at all
Four years he fought and he fought unafraid
Sniffing down traitors by traitors betrayed
Marat in the courtroom Marat underground
Sometimes the otter and sometimes the hound
Fight ing all the gentry and fighting every priest
Businessman the bourgeois the military beast
Marat always ready to stifle every scheme
of the sons of the arse licking dying regime
We've got new generals our leaders are new
They sit and they argue and all that they do
Is sell their own colleagues and ride upon their backs
And jail them and break them and give them all the axe
Screaming in language that no one understands
Of the rights that we grabbed with our own bleeding hands
When we wiped out the bosses and stormed through the wall
Of the prison they told us would outlast us all
Marat we're poor
And the poor stay poor
Marat don't make
Us wait anymore
We want our rights and we don't care how
We want our revolution now
Why do they have the gold
Why do they have the power
Why why why
Do they have the friends at the top
Why do they have the jobs at the top
We've got nothing
Always had nothing
Nothing but holes and millions of them
Living in holes dying in holes
Holes in our bellies and holes in our clothes
Marat we're poor
And the poor stay poor
Marat don't make us wait anymore
Poor old Marat they hunt you down
The bloodhounds are sniffing all over the town
Poor old Marat you work til your eyes turn as red as rust
poor old Marat
We trust in you ....

 

[AC14]

Glad we had this. We should demand a democratic vote on who should be the government rather than accept the Tories being in power.

 

[shaman75]

Wankers by entoptika, on Flickr


The Words On The Street by entoptika, on Flickr

 

[jakethesnake]

It's interesting to watch this on the live feeds.

Glad we had this. We should demand a democratic vote on who should be the government rather than accept the Tories being in power.

We live in a democracy (allegedly) not an elected dictatorship: it is perfectly proper and right that people robustly express their opinion about government policy. To put it bluntly, gaining 36% of the votes cast does not give any government any sort of mandate to screw us into poverty for the benefit of their rich friends and they should expect protest and resistance every step of the way. Also, fuck off you twat.

 

[Eddiemc]

Glad we had this. We should demand a democratic vote on who should be the government rather than accept the Tories being in power.

A democratic vote? Isn't that called an election?

 

[Andrew Hertford]

....robustly express their opinion

Lol at the newspeak for political violence and the desecration of a memorial to women who died fighting fascism.

 

[CNT36]

Spraying the memorial was fucking silly, but forget that. Nice one to all who showed their face today, that's what counts.

And those who didn't.

 

[Pickman's model]

Lol at the newspeak for political violence and the desecration of a memorial to women who died fighting fascism.

you haven't looked at the memorial, have you?

seems fairly unequivocal: ALL the women, not just the british. not just the allied.

 

[Pickman's model]

Always picked last at school by entoptika, on Flickr

You put your left arm in
your left arm out
In, out, in, out,
You shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around
That's what it's all about...

[Chorus]
Woah, the hokey cokey,
Woah, the hokey cokey,
Woah, the hokey cokey,
Knees bent, arms stretched, ra ra ra!

You put your right arm in
your right arm out
In, out, in, out,
You shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around
That's what it's all about...

[Chorus]

You put your left leg in
your left leg out
In, out, in, out,
You shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around
That's what it's all about...

 

[Blagsta]

Lol at the newspeak for political violence and the desecration of a memorial to women who died fighting fascism.

Political violence? What political violence?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

That prat in a Guy Fawkes mask holding up a picture of Gordon Brown. What was he thinking of? Would it have been impossible to do a google image search for a politician who had had some relevance since 2010 and redo his crappy poster?

 

[Pickman's model]

That prat in a Guy Fawkes mask holding up a picture of Gordon Brown. What was he thinking of? Would it have been impossible to do a google image search for a politician who had had some relevance since 2010 and redo his crappy poster?

he was an mp until just the other day.

 

[Artaxerxes]

desecration of a memorial to women who died fighting fascism.

Fucks sake, its paint, paint washes off.

 

[dessiato]

(posted on other thread too.)