NUS national protest against the cuts 10.11.10 [London]

[dennisr]

One of the protesters in a red knitted balaclava with a bobble on top. Awr.

 

[Fruitloop]

Run, Luke, Run!

 

[agricola]

Is that the sidestreet to the right of the building (if you're looking at the entrance from Millbank)? If so, I saw loads of cop vans on it earlier in the helicopter coverage.

Its the bit that runs around the back of Thames House, between Millbank and Horseferry Road.

 

[Lock&Light]

Porter is an absolute disgrace. What a cock-end.

Possibly, but he knows what's counter-productive.

 

[temper_tantrum]

Its the bit that runs around the back of Thames House, between Millbank and Horseferry Road.

Yeah that's the one. Cop HQ for the day.

Edit: Looks like the kettle is in place.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

And a student protest in Dublin today @6pm re: Police brutality at their mass march last week... Could be an interesting day all round!

 

[editor]

I'm not sure that Sky News have run the footage of the solitary fire extinguisher being thrown off the roof enough times yet.

 

[Fruitloop]

Actually I think this might be the exception to the rule, but we'll have to wait and see.

 

[dylans]

Why?

Because leadership like this crave ineffectual protest as an outlet and diversion for real anger, safe in the knowledge that such protests will achieve nothing and allow them to scale the career ladder in politics that every national NUS bureaucrat dreams of building on the backs of their members.

This is real treachery and his reaction to the minor civil disobedience shown today tells us everything we need to know about him and the entire NUS leadership. He, like all union leaders are active obstacles to a real fight. Steam valves whose entire purpose is to control and dampen real struggles. As soon as the slightest attempt to launch anything but impotent symbolic protest is made his true colours come out and he condemns it. He's a traitor and every NUS member should treat him with the contempt he deserves and spit in his cowardly face.

 

[audiotech]

Just reported on the BBC live link that members of the Socialist Workers Party were seen on the demo selling papers. Good god!

 

[fogbat]

Just reported on the BBC live link that members of the Socialist Workers Party were seen on the demo selling papers. Good god!

In the End Days, when the dead rise, the armies of heaven and hell gather, and Death, Famine, War and Pestilence circle the earth on their bony steeds, the SWP will be out selling papers

 

[Fruitloop]

Well said dylans.

 

[krtek a houby]

Because leadership like this crave ineffectual protest as an outlet and diversion for real anger, safe in the knowledge that such protests will achieve nothing and allow them to scale the career ladder in politics that every national NUS bureaucrat dreams of building on the backs of their members.

This is real treachery and his reaction to the minor civil disobedience shown today tells us everything we need to know about him and the entire NUS leadership. He, like all union leaders are active obstacles to a real fight. Steam valves whose entire purpose is to control and dampen real struggles. As soon as the slightest attempt to launch anything but impotent symbolic protest is made his true colours come out and he condemns it. He's a traitor and every NUS member should treat him with the contempt he deserves and spit in his cowardly face.

So, just pure conjecture on your part, then? And for that he should hang?

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Just reported on the BBC live link that members of the Socialist Workers Party were seen on the demo selling papers. Good god!

being as useful as ever....

 

[Streathamite]

Possibly, but he knows what's counter-productive.

so do I - having these lickspittle bureaucrats in charge of any union, let alone the NUS

 

[revol68]

So, just pure conjecture on your part, then? And for that he should hang?

You got it Sherlock!

 

[Streathamite]

Because leadership like this crave ineffectual protest as an outlet and diversion for real anger, safe in the knowledge that such protests will achieve nothing and allow them to scale the career ladder in politics that every national NUS bureaucrat dreams of building on the backs of their members.

This is real treachery and his reaction to the minor civil disobedience shown today tells us everything we need to know about him and the entire NUS leadership. He, like all union leaders are active obstacles to a real fight. Steam valves whose entire purpose is to control and dampen real struggles. As soon as the slightest attempt to launch anything but impotent symbolic protest is made his true colours come out and he condemns it. He's a traitor and every NUS member should treat him with the contempt he deserves and spit in his cowardly face.

beat yer to it, #260!

 

[temper_tantrum]

In the End Days, when the dead rise, the armies of heaven and hell gather, and Death, Famine, War and Pestilence circle the earth on their bony steeds, the SWP will be out selling papers

 

[dylans]

So, just pure conjecture on your part, then? And for that he should hang?

I will accept his head on a spike.

 

[krtek a houby]

I will accept his head on a spike.

Violence achieves nothing. It just leads to more violence.

 

[rekil]

Dark now. I fear the savages will be going about their baton happy business soonish.

 

[krtek a houby]

Dark now. I fear the savages will be going about their baton happy business soonish.

Not to mention the feral youth

 

[Lock&Light]

so do I - having these lickspittle bureaucrats in charge of any union, let alone the NUS

Then it depends on what the aims are.

 

[revol68]

Violence achieves nothing. It just leads to more violence.

yeah, they wage violent class war on the working class and should be met with violence in return.

peaceful lawful protest achieves fuck all. How many million marched against the invasion of Iraq did fuck all, maybe if a a tenth of those marching had taken direct action and violence the outcome would have been different.

 

[Idris2002]

Still, not a lot to get excited about. Tianamen Square this ain't.

All in good time, my boy, all in good time.

 

[revol68]

Not to mention the feral youth

are you some sort of west brit?

 

[FoxyRed]

Does any know if it is safe to travel home via Westminster on the tube

 

[sir.clip]

Not to mention the feral youth

And some elderly student protestor gang bangers.

 

[Idris2002]

The ones I had to work my way through all sounded very well spoken.

Yeah, yeah, if they'd all been glottal stops and dropped 'h's that wouldn't have been acceptable either, would it?

 

[grit]

All in good time, my boy, all in good time.

Yeah, this certainly seems to be just the start of such things.