NUS national protest against the cuts 10.11.10 [London]

[revol68]

I don't get how you can just say that every person in the police is a cunt. I don't agree with war and would personally never join the armed forces but it doesn't mean that underqualified young men and women who are pushed by economic circumstances to join up are all 'cunts'. I'm sure plenty of them are, but most are not - I think the same applies here. I might just decide that every person on that riot is a cunt because I personally wouldn't get involved with smashing up other people's stuff.

you do understand the difference between the cop as a social role and a cop as a person?

The cops are cunts does not exclude the possibility of a cop being a lovely father, or being personally sound.

 

[agricola]

It's doing a pretty good job of letting the government - and the general public - know that people are very angry at the government's cuts and they're not going to take it lying down.

The size of the turn out is massive compared to what they were expecting and that suggests other protests against the cuts are going to lively affairs too - and that's sending a very loud message to the politicians.

IIRC the last major anti-fees NUS demo in London was as big as this, and its a terrible shame that all this anger is taking place under the banner of the NUS (which of course is led by people intent on representing the party that introduced tuition fees and which would inevitably have put them up if they had won the election).

 

[magneze]

Wow, a huge protest. This is the way things need to go.

 

[editor]

I just spotted an Anarchy graffiti. Old school!

 

[SF-02]

Are the protesters still mostly at Millbank or are groups elsewhere? Some should be getting a move on elsewhere to start somewhere else before they are all kettled for hours on end.

 

[vauxhallmum]

Hope I did that right. Just wanted to point out that this didn't tell the whole story either, but she did time for it anyway.

 

[fractionMan]

Because of health & safety concerns, they are being moved back to avoid missiles

uh huh

 

[radio_atomica]

you do understand the difference between the cop as a social role and a cop as a person?

The cops are cunts does not exclude the possibility of a cop being a lovely father, or being personally sound.

If you're not talking about the individuals, I don't get how you can be calling a 'social role' i.e. not a person, a cunt I agree the system is fucked, absolutely - does that make the people working within it, without questions, cunts? I doubt it....

 

[radio_atomica]

Hope I did that right. Just wanted to point out that this didn't tell the whole story either, but she did time for it anyway.

if you were posting a link nothing has shown up, vauxhallmum

 

[gawkrodger]

accoding to a twitter feed on the guardian, the 'concrete' from the roof is in fact copies of teh Socialist Worker haha

 

[ska invita]

students are always a big part of protests though, they are the protesting demographic.

you say that, but look at when labour brought in the fees - that was the moment to stop the rot - thin end of the wedge and all that - there was a demo, but thats about it. student apathy has been grumbled about for years now...

*report of a dnb sound system turning up at millbank has tickled me! wish i wasnt on a shitty 12hr shift here...

 

[revol68]

If you're not talking about the individuals, I don't get how you can be calling a 'social role' i.e. not a person, a cunt I agree the system is fucked, absolutely - does that make the people working within it, without questions, cunts? I doubt it....

It makes the cops as an institution and social role a cuntish one though.

 

[editor]

FFS: how idiotic is the SkyNews interviewer?

 

[fractionMan]

I think they have finally woken up and seen what the fuck is going on. Being this betrayed by the lib dems has fired em up imo.

 

[agricola]

FFS: how idiotic is the SkyNews interviewer?

If its Kay Burley then very.

 

[Orang Utan]

murderers about to move in

 

[fractionMan]

@BristleKRS Sign at #demo2010: 'KAY BURLEY IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU DON'T INVEST IN EDUCATION'.

 

[ExtraRefined]

I just spotted an Anarchy graffiti. Old school!

graffito

 

[sir.clip]

Not a large Scottish contingent apparantley.
But one bloke came for the craic.

 

[revol68]

yeah there's definitely a wider sense of discontent that has been growing for some time.

 

[Dan U]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asifkhan/5163666447/

 

[belboid]

graffito

graffiti. We are not Italian, it is a 'mass noun'

 

[Chairman Meow]

Ohhh I used to work in Millbank, I hope they burn the place to the ground!

 

[ska invita]

sky news if you have it.

one thing about sky news is they do tend be more graphic on this kind of thing than the bbc. at the last City thing i nipped in for a pint and the footage on the telly was the same as what was outside the window. <last time i'll ever say anything near nice about sky.

 

[editor]

Slippery LibDem politician getting short thrift from the same crowd he claimed were applauding him earlier.

 

[Streathamite]

- does that make the people working within it, without questions, cunts? I doubt it....

if they understand that central to their jobs is playing a part in social control and oppression, and they happily embrace that then, yes, professionally, they are very much 'cunts'. outside of work, possibly a different matter

 

[editor]

Those evil students are throwing concrete cunningly disguised as sheets of paper off the roof.

 

[krtek a houby]

Those evil students are throwing concrete cunningly disguised as sheets of paper off the roof.

Art students, i'll wager

 

[Stoat Boy]

Makes me wonder if the Old Bill are perhaps being more 'lenient' by way of reminding the Government who protects them. Mates of mine in the Police force are worried about their pensions (which is why the majority of them seem to stay in the job for so long) will come under 'review'.

Could be a way of letting the Conservatives know how much they might be needing them.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Live again now the foyer's been cleared