London Student protests - Wed 8th Dec+ Thurs 9th

[ymu]

What do you think is actually going to happen, even assuming major protests continue? Is some new political party that represents a genuine alternative going to somehow appear?

Getting the right bums on seats is a forlorn hope. Parliamentary politics is a dead end, IMO. If we want democracy, we have to set limits on what the government can get away with. If this government falls, Labour will inevitably win the next election. They need to be on notice that we will bring them down too if they step over the line.

 

[Orang Utan]

Getting the right bums on seats is a forlorn hope. Parliamentary politics is a dead end, IMO. If we want democracy, we have to set limits on what the government can get away with. If this government falls, Labour will inevitably win the next election. They need to be on notice that we will bring them down too if they step over the line.

it doesn't bode well when the only thing the opposition leader will promise us is 'no more pledges'.

 

[joustmaster]

What do they hope to gain by doing that? Look at all that grafitti on the building

I used to work in there

Showing strong disapproval.
And smashing stuff is fun.

 

[ernestolynch]

BBC News 24 is funny.

 

[xes]

where's the live feed at?

Can't be arsed to trawl through 500 posts looking for it. *flutters eyelashes*

 

[Crispy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11566509

 

[agricola]

BBC News 24 is funny.

when ben brown gets nicked because his dna is on one of those bricks it will be.



edit: or whoever this bloke is (named fixed)

 

[Orang Utan]

BBC News 24 is funny.

the reporter trying to get a shot of santa

 

[xes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11566509

thanking you

 

[spitfire]

when ben brogan gets nicked because his dna is on one of those bricks it will be.



edit: or whoever this bloke is

I was hoping one of the cops were going to run up behind him and knock it out of his hand with a baton. lulz.

 

[xes]

gone off as it starts to kick off, don't suppose they want to televise police brutality.

 

[ymu]

it doesn't bode well when the only thing the opposition leader will promise us is 'no more pledges'.

Not sure how that's relevant to what I said? I don't care which party is in power - I care about setting limits on their neo-liberal barbarism.

 

[fiannanahalba]

Fair play to the studes.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Have they really set fire to the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square?

Looks alright to me

http://www.camvista.com/england/london/trafalgarsquare_streaming.php

 

[agricola]

The BBC are clearly desperate for that rumoured attack on the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square to be true.

 

[Mr Smin]

Just being out there in this cold is proof that this is not just a stunt, I reckon. If my generation of students had managed something more than an a-to-b march about grant cuts, we might never have got to this situation.

Nick Clegg had had his policies pushed up his hole, as explained by Kunt and the Gang.

 

[spitfire]

gone off as it starts to kick off, don't suppose they want to televise police brutality.

I would really like to see what's happening at the door to the treasury. There are a lot of cameras going off. Have been for about 10 minutes now.

edit: finally! took them a while to spot that. they're trying to break the door down.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i don't think there's a specific strategy to it. it's just smashing shit up innit.

Maybe they're hoping to get a few free computers

 

[trabant]

guardian has stopped live blogging. some that are left

http://lsjsn.wordpress.com/
https://london.indymedia.org.uk/action_timelines/dayx3-shutdown-london

and the odd tweets.

 

[agricola]

Maybe they're hoping to get a few free computers

and ten pence pieces, that phonebox outside the treasury got mashed up

 

[ernestolynch]

One of my boys asked if the policemen are going to shoot Santa. (I teach them that police are bad lol)

 

[twentythreedom]

next time i'm going to be there. used to go on all the criminal justice etc marches / demos / riots in the early 90s, seeing all this makes really pine for the satisfaction of punching a copper in the mush

 

[ymu]

Ramming the doors of the treasury with barricades. Not a copper in sight.

 

[Belushi]

Well done Students! hope some coppers got hurt.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and ten pence pieces, that phonebox outside the treasury got mashed up

Will nobody think of the tourists. They're right popular phone boxes for tourists they are

Do they still take 10p then? I thought minimum was 20p?

 

[agricola]

Ramming the doors of the treasury with barricades. Not a copper in sight.

as the BBC showed earlier, there are loads of them inside

 

[girasol]

One of my boys asked if the policemen are going to shoot Santa. (I teach them that police are bad lol)

They did arrest him...

 

[Orang Utan]

guardian has stopped live blogging. some that are left

http://lsjsn.wordpress.com/
https://london.indymedia.org.uk/action_timelines/dayx3-shutdown-london

and the odd tweets.

i've managed to lock myself out of twitter so have missed how it went down there

 

[ymu]

Need to develop some decent grips for those barricades so thoughtfully provided by the police. Tough on the fingers/knuckles unless you can get a good cushioned handle. Simple bit of rope-work should do the trick.

 

[agricola]

Will nobody think of the tourists. They're right popular phone boxes for tourists they are

Do they still take 10p then? I thought minimum was 20p?

really? been ages since I used one