National Walkout Against Fees 24.11.10

[sunnysidedown]

^ any truth in the rumour that the polis van's reg is: TR0 JAN?

 

[Blagsta]

It looks a bit sus doesn't it?

 

[ddraig]

that ain't even shopped
just paint pisstake

 

[creak]

No I saw the live BBC footage of it, it is graffiti rather than photoshop.

 

[madzone]

I've just had a right go at the students in my studio. Lazy apathetic little cunts. I've told them they disgust me. Which was nice.

 

[Dan U]

getting a bit pushy, shovey and hitty in the kettle. students are testing the lines and getting whacked by TSG in the process

it's more low key though.

there is some ex copper on Sky commentating on it all, not one of ours is it?

 

[The Octagon]

Royal Holloway have started early: http://de.justin.tv/rhul_anti_cuts/b/274484675 (live video feed)

Heh, I drink with some of those guys

 

[bi0boy]

No I saw the live BBC footage of it, it is graffiti rather than photoshop.

Very kind of those police to leave a single van right in the middle of the crowd for so long wasn't it?

 

[sunnysidedown]

That's the first time i've seen a kettle nearly breached (whitehall), 2 dozen more dedicated protesters and they would of been through.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

http://www.channel4.com/news/live-blog-student-protest-against-tuition-fee-plans

 

[creak]

Very kind of those police to leave a single van right in the middle of the crowd for so long wasn't it?

Yep, they've easily got the numbers in reserve to take it back if they want to. Sounds like they're kettling outside Whitehall too, good way to raise the temperatures within.

 

[fractionMan]

http://storify.com/suellewellyn/demo2010

 

[Doctor Carrot]

 

[Ungrateful]

Students hear had a good protest, linking up with the local FE students. It had some of the institutions' high hijuns worried. For a site which never usually has a copper in sight, we had a van load of them, plus six on foot and the region's 'unmarkled' police car - recogniseable by all those caught speeding on the M74. For a place with student numbers in their hundreds, it was an excellent turn out. BBC report here. Let's see what, if anything, develops....

 

[Doctor Carrot]

The BBC's coverage is infuriating. Banging on about a little bit of shoving and that one police van being vandalised and yet they say absolutely nothing about this government's vandalising of young people's future and public services. "Oh it doesn't matter, you can pay the debt back when you earn over 21k" fucking cunts .

 

[machine cat]

Massive police presence here in central Leeds. I believe there was a good turn-out at the university and I'll have a walk through town on my way home tonight and see what's happening.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[fractionMan]

Abandoned police van is apparently a different, older model than all the others being used.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Abandoned police van is apparently a different, older model than all the others being used.

that's all very convenient eh?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oh yeah:

 

[skyscraper101]

Excatly, people STILL fall for this shit.

Someone should have foresaw that happening and placed a couple of warning signs not to touch the van as it's an obvious ploy by the cops to get photos in the press when it was vandalised.

 

[bi0boy]

I'm sure all police vans normally contain red smoke grenades and fire extinguishers inside them but no weapons or uniforms.

 

[fractionMan]

"There's a policeman there, just using a truncheon to calm down the students a bit" says BBC News.

 

[Dan U]

Officially kettling now according to sky.

 

[ddraig]

ha
TSG with broken arm!

heart bleeds

 

[krtek a houby]

Gove on beeb says it's been hijacked by extremist groups...

 

[ddraig]

lol
Gove calling out the swappies

 

[Dan U]

He just did that on sky. The extreme left, the swp....

 

[ddraig]

"the socialist worker party seeking a confrontation" by Gove on beeb

 

[krtek a houby]

Beeb interviewer isn't buying his rhetorical flourishes