NUS national protest against the cuts 10.11.10 [London]

[the button]

Following paul_lewis on twitter, latest:

Fights breaking out between police #demo2010 and protesters as another group force their way into Millbank building. TSG officers drafted

Hope any studes armed with drink cartons are careful. Our friend Delroy Smellie might be there.

 

[moon23]

at the moment one of them is mooning the building priceless. oh he just flipped the bird too..

http://news.sky.com/skynews/LivePlus

Oh dear lot's of unmasked middle-class kids whipped up into a fury, will now be facing criminal damages charges

 

[rutabowa]

where is this all going on?

 

[Santino]

Do you support the demo, moon23?

 

[frogwoman]

Oh dear lot's of unmasked middle-class kids whipped up into a fury, will now be facing criminal damages charges

Not all of them are middle class by any definition.

 

[Santino]

where is this all going on?

Mostly around Parliament, a small minority around Millbank where all the media attention is now.

 

[moon23]

theres a lot of palestinian scarves (£19.99 at topshop) and iPhones being waved about now. this looks like the aftermath of a full moon party at the mo

If students have to pay for their education they won't be able to afford to replace their palestinian scarves or Iphones when they lose them pissed up on lager.

 

[Santino]

Not all of them are middle class by any definition.

To be fair, I bet loads of them come from households earning £23,000 a year, which they use to buy ponies, go skiiing and pay private school fees.

 

[rutabowa]

Mostly around Parliament, a small minority around Millbank where all the media attention is now.

awesome.

 

[Santino]

Do you support the increase in fees and the slashing of teaching budgets, moon23?

 

[Streathamite]

It will be easy to portray these protestors as immature yobs now they have started smashing stuff.

spoken just like a Tory Daily Mail reader!

 

[Dan U]

Some lad is on the phone now on sky news saying he is in an alternate group looking to occupy buildings elsewhere.

Reckons they got battoned out of dept of business and lib dem hq

 

[the button]

Live coverage on BBC news channel: -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10318089

 

[rekil]

Awful Kay Burley woman on Sky: Do you think it's appropriate to commit illegal acts to get your points across?
Student: I think it's definitely appropriate.


Well said sir.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

CCHQ is a pretty slender operation. There would be more bona fide Tories in Westminster, or freshly installed in sinecures at Admiralty Arch.

 

[Streathamite]

Under the Coalition proposals if you graduate and don't get graduate-level job with above-average salary, you don't have to pay anything. Even if you never make a payment, the debt gets cancelled eventually. .

jesus, stop this rubbish spinning! That was ALWAYS the case with loans, now you're just keeping them on the breadline for far longer!

 

[frogwoman]

To be fair, I bet loads of them come from households earning £23,000 a year, which they use to buy ponies, go skiiing and pay private school fees.

Much of the middle class is becoming proletarianised anyway IMO ... anyway, a lot of these are also school and college students who will be shut out of higher education by the tories' proposals.

 

[moon23]

Do you support the demo, moon23?

I think everyone has a right to demonstrate, I don't support the direct action or criminal damages. I think that any coalition is going to have compromises, but that it was stupid to sign an agreement that means having to break an election promise. It was daft negotiating such an agreement in only a few days.

 

[DrRingDing]

The Sky footage made me cheer in the pub much to some suits disapproval

 

[rekil]

Copper's helmet on a stick.

 

[killer b]

this is excellent.

cunt off moon23. arsehole.

 

[revol68]

well this has put a big smile on my face, let's just hope anyone doing anything naughty remembers to cover theirs.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

They're going to have to move in quickly - the police will reinforce pretty soon.

ETA: oh, there they go - streaming in.

 

[Orang Utan]

i'm not impressed by these students. all they've done is start a tiny fire, steal a sofa, jostle some cops a little break a couple of windows. step it up a bit!

 

[the button]

i'm not impressed by these students. all they've done is start a tiny fire, steal a sofa, jostle some cops a little break a couple of windows. step it up a bit!

The Bullingdon used to do more damage than that before opening time. C'mon, studes.

 

[revol68]

i'm not impressed by these students. all they've done is start a tiny fire, steal a sofa, jostle some cops a little break a couple of windows. step it up a bit!

Now if only some of the unions had the balls to call a general strike against the cuts.

 

[DRINK?]

They are buring effigies.....now we're talking....brilliant

 

[Santino]

Some on the roof

 

[Streathamite]

Now if only some of the unions had the balls to call a general strike against the cuts.

yeah - on the first day of the winter olympics in hell

 

[Orang Utan]

c'mon!