Thatcher Dead Party 6pm Saturday 13 April Trafalgar Sq

[Wilf]

All these years waiting for it to happen and I coudn't make the party. Same time, Trafalgar Square might be a good party venue, but it's also one big kettle. Hope there's a bit of creativity for those wanting to have more extended jollies around central London.

 

[stuff_it]

Tourists from dry places

Places like 'home' or 'the pub'?

 

[killer b]

this looks ominous...

 

[stuff_it]

All these years waiting for it to happen and I coudn't make the party. Same time, Trafalgar Square might be a good party venue, but it's also one big kettle. Hope there's a bit of creativity for those wanting to have more extended jollies around central London.

Fucking tell me about it. Couldn't get to Brix last Weds either.

Not got time to get to London this weekend.

 

[stuff_it]

this looks ominous...

That does look bad.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Perhaps deciding and publicising the time and the venue 19 years in advance was a tactical error?

 

[pesh]

thats an old picture isn't it? think i remember seeing it last time there was a major demo

 

[tufty79]

dont let the plod scare you, its been confirmed with the met, no special orders other then close observation. They will not arrest unless they have to, So Go along, have fun..

it's not being arrested by them that i'd be scared of.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

doesn't look like that on the web cam

http://www.camscape.com/view/459

 

[belboid]

thats an old picture isn't it? think i remember seeing it last time there was a major demo

yup, the live cam view looks rather different

 

[killer b]

thats an old picture isn't it? think i remember seeing it last time there was a major demo

ah, could be. someone posted it on fb as now, but that doesn't mean anything.

 

[sunny jim]

That was from one of the student demo's - the one that ended up near London metropolitan university, just down the road from the other Occupy camp. November 2011 IIRC.

 

[red rose]

tineye found it in a 2011 Daily Mail article.

 

[Fingers]

live feed http://bambuser.com/v/3510515

 

[Wilf]

The met will have a fair idea how many are coming down on 'official' buses (particularly ex miners from up north), but I suspect they'll be really unsure about the rest. As well as the usual suspects there could be any number of cnders, travellers, ex ravers. They've not had long to get the intellignece in place, unlike say the old May Day bashes. They'll also be worried about the 'tone' of policing I guess. Be happy to kick the fuck out of anyone smashing things up, looting etc - but batoning the 50 - 70 year olds who will be there in numbers might be another thing PR wise. Plenty of 1984 and 2013 images in the making. Could also be an evening of kettled pensioners, with who knows what health problems.

 

[stuff_it]

live feed http://bambuser.com/v/3510515

That guy must have the biggest phone battery ever.

 

[Dillinger4]

I will never ever understand why anybody would decide to protest in Trafalgar Square. It was designed for effective crowd control.

 

[sunny jim]

I will never ever understand why anybody would decide to protest in Trafalgar Square. It was designed for effective crowd control.

For the squillionth time ITS A PARTY, NOT A PROTEST

 

[Wilf]

I will never ever understand why anybody would decide to protest in Trafalgar Square. It was designed for effective crowd control.

I agree, though most of the ones that end up there don't really need controlling. Hopefully tonight will be a nice mix of relaxed celebrations in TS, with more assertive celebrations elsewhere.

 

[Sunray]

Its about 100 yards from Number 10 and has at least 7 exits probably more so in the unlikely event of retired ex-miners kicking off after having one too many shandies, you have a lot of choice in the direction to run in.

Seeing as the Tories are are in power right now, a bit of a show of just how much their blessed asset was truly hated is a good thing.

I am going to head down at an unspecified time.

 

[Dillinger4]

For the squillionth time ITS A PARTY, NOT A PROTEST

Whatever it is, it still being held in a place designed so the police can pen you in if they want. It is the worst place ever to do anything.

 

[Dillinger4]

You have the entire world in which to do whatever you want to do, but you choose to go inside a police cage to do it

 

[Wilf]

Whatever it is, it still being held in a place designed so the police can pen you in if they want. It is the worst place ever to do anything.

Remember getting penned somewhere north of TS on a Mayday around 2003 (arms dealers HQ?). They moved us down in a rolling kettle and then dumped us in the Square. Like being in an open air nick.

 

[stuff_it]

You have the entire world in which to do whatever you want to do, but you choose to go inside a police cage to do it

Fucksake these party plans have been around since the 90s, bit late to change them now.

 

[renegadechicken]

We are just about to get into the car and travel up from the south coast - 2 hrs and we are there.

 

[maomao]

live feed http://bambuser.com/v/3510515

Seems unlikely. Square still full of tourists (empty on cctv before that went down), no conspicuously anti thatcher types and not raining much. Pissing down 3 miles away.

 

[laptop]

And, crucially, many people have managed to remember "Saturday following, 6pm, Trafalgar Square" for two decades or more.

An interesting two decades, at that

 

[17094]

What company is supplying the security guards who are supposed to be guarding the architectural assets, such as Nelson's column, the lions and fountains? Grauniad live feed for people like me miles away from any possible site where the bitch's death might be celebrated.

 

[Ax^]

Can hear the chopper must be headed in the right direction

 

[stuff_it]

Seems unlikely. Square still full of tourists (empty on cctv before that went down), no conspicuously anti thatcher types and not raining much. Pissing down 3 miles away.

It's a loop from three hours ago now.

Can hear the chopper must be headed in the right direction

Have lost track of the number of parties I've found using the chopper over the years.