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Riot going on now in Bristol - Stokes Croft

Eh? A bunch of lefties hate Tesco that is a success because lot's of people want to shop there. I hate this shit, what gives some self-righteous idiot the right to use violence against a company that actually provides a cheap and useful supermarket for most working people?
 
I am genuinely surprised the police would mount an operation of this sort at 9.15pm on what from my limited experience in London looks like the start a massive weekend piss-up. Unless of course they were looking for a response. So then you have to look at motives.

Don't you?
 
Eh? A bunch of lefties hate Tesco that is a success because lot's of people want to shop there. I hate this shit, what gives some self-righteous idiot the right to use violence against a company that actually provides a cheap and useful supermarket for most working people?

*chunders everywhere*
 
Eh? A bunch of lefties hate Tesco that is a success because lot's of people want to shop there. I hate this shit, what gives some self-righteous idiot the right to use violence against a company that actually provides a cheap and useful supermarket for most working people?

you're a disgrace to a meaningful number.
 
you're a disgrace to a meaningful number.

Ha you share some numerical kinship with me. How entertaining.

What's their objection, what's their issue? As a casual observer I can only tell this is something to do with squats, tesco and a bunch of student types protesting and kicking off. Where is the narrative for your average person?
 
Where is the narrative for your average person?

You fucking weaselly party hack, you quisling cunt, enjoy canvassing on the doorstep and here's to you getting a nice barbed working class narrative up your putrid arsehole :)
 
What's their objection, what's their issue? As a casual observer I can only tell this is something to do with squats, tesco and a bunch of student types protesting and kicking off. Where is the narrative for your average person?
I am a 55 year old married male with a grown up family.
Do I fit into your 'average person' narrative?
Using your skill and judgement google TESCO and take off your blinkers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/15/tesco-south-africa-workers-conditions
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/1580/press_release.html
http://www.actionaid.org/main.aspx?PageID=683
 
"they're breaking back into tesco. police attacking in formation now" #stokescroft

couple of mins ago on twitter, so it's still going on...
 
Ha you share some numerical kinship with me. How entertaining.

What's their objection, what's their issue? As a casual observer I can only tell this is something to do with squats, tesco and a bunch of student types protesting and kicking off. Where is the narrative for your average person?

fuck off cunt. You don't have a fucking clue about my neighbourhood so fuck the fuck off

oh and 'student types'?! Again, fuck off. Lots of working class Bristolian accents out there tonight
 
Posted on the other thread:

Wow.

Went up there about 11ish when I saw posts about what was happening. Big stand off on the Chelt Road/Glos Road junction with lines of cops and around 15 vans, many from Gwent police. Bottles and rocks being thrown. Police started pushing rioters down Ashley Road and a giant game of cat and mouse started in streets between Ashley Road and City Road, turning a Stokes Croft situation into a St Pauls situation. Ended up back on Stokes Croft with police charges, crowd scattered and ran, stand off resumed. Everywhere bins were being emptied of ammunition and set alight as barricades. More side street cat and mouse on the Kingsdown side around Nine Tree Hill. Eventually the police fucked off en masse with the inevitable result of rioters descending on Tesco and putting the windows in. Cop 4wd abandoned near Tesco with the inevitable result - a door was being ripped off before it got rescued when the police came screaming back in, more scattering and running, more barricades, more cat and mouse. An hour or so later, cops fucked off again, more destruction of Tesco, shutters being pulled up, main sign paint bombed, small sign ripped down. Cops returned, more scattering down Ashley Road. Dying down around 5am.

Telepathic Heights squat still occupied, lots of debris around Stokes Croft, Cheltenham Road, Ashley Road and City Road. Local residents coming out with brooms to sweep up and giving the cops a piece of their mind. No shops/take aways touched other than Tesco which has been well and truly smashed up on the outside. No idea whether anybody got in or not - though I saw some free fags being passed around so I suspect they did. Didn't seem to be many nickings though I did see one or two.

Yes, it was a proper riot. A smallish one but proper all the same. The cops dropped a massive bollock tonight
 
Eh? A bunch of lefties hate Tesco that is a success because lot's of people want to shop there. I hate this shit, what gives some self-righteous idiot the right to use violence against a company that actually provides a cheap and useful supermarket for most working people?

I hate you, you fucking worthless shit. Your lot are going to get fucking destroyed around here in two weeks and good fucking riddance. Fuck off pontificating about my back yard you wanker
 
Yeah, they left a 4WD with trailer behind near Tesco when they went into a full on retreat up Cheltenham Road. So the obvious happened - the driver's door was nearly ripped clean off
 
Not everyone in the area is opposed to the Tesco store though, are they?

Obviously some people are very opposed. Never thought that local-foodists were rioting types before. Is there something else behind this?
 
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