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Is swampy there?

Yeah, let's smash those evil bankers. Let's storm the office of RBS who, er, we own now it's been nationalised. Every window they break has to be paid for by taxpayers. Like the extra police costs.

Meanwhile, due to all the disruption, the City workers have basically got themselves an afternoon off work, so are going home or spending the afternoon out having a few drinks in a beer garden somewhere.

[  ] Protest will make a lick of difference to global economic policy

[  ] gg Swampy

I wondered where all the rich brats from Universitys had gone today..

I was going to go down to Luton tonight but I may go down to London and join in the riots....probably less hullaballoo there than there is in Luton when you outdraw MDD.

I LOL'ed at a guy being interviewed on the radio, think too much booze on the way didn't make him the best guy to interview as wasn't sure what he was protesting about, or perhaps thats why they picked him.   :D

Damn hippies.

These people make my head want to pop.

I liked the lady i heard on the radio who was completely convinced we needed a new financial system.

Er like what? Magic beans under your bed?

If all these people just got jobs, worked hard and paid taxes we'd be laughing.

Just seen this on Sky News. Russel Brand even turned up and had no idea why he was there, clearly.

the hardcore protesters will be pros ... they do the lot.

The majority wont have a clue what they are protesting about, but just fancy a ruck.

so sad.

Round them up and make 'em do National service !

+ 1

PS Kev for Prime Minister

 ;dingdell;

There was a guy on 5 Live who'd set up a protest camp that was environmentally friendly and invited loads of people down.  They'd set up nice things to do and it all looked lovely.   Obviously he was convinced that people would come and join in the fun for the protest rather than....well, for the fun.



and Stu for Chancellor :D

Chancellor Stu has spoken.
I award one magic bean to my loyal patron Silo.

Yeah because environmental stuff is well know to be cheaper ....

Is the protest against making the recession ease ?

Get the batons out and beat the living shit out of these morons who are costing us taxpayers a fortune for no reason other than publicity.

Sandy

Why lump the forces with this bunch of reprobates?

Make anyone that wants to go to Uni pay their own way, none of this student loans pisch, if they can't afford or don't want to cough up, tuff- get a job.

That'll stop most of these morons having the free time to do this nonsense.

Geo

Geo, call me ignorant but isn't it the rich toff students who are the ones usually protesting- i.e these ones that would still be going to uni anyway as mummy and daddy would be paying???
student loans allow the more "working class" student to get an education

Working classes can either go down the mines, join the army or go on the dole..just like they used to.

Now ;slavedriver;

FYP

I cannot agree with that.

It's effectively saying that education should be the sole preserve of the rich and the working classes should stay working class forever and not even consider trying to improve on what their parents achieved.

Monumental fail to suggest it imo

what's your point?

I was agreeing and supporting ChipPrince

That's why I added that I thought it was a fail to suggest it - to make it clear that was how I interpreted the statement - and that I thought that was a bad thing

Yeah but he's probably just a student so gets no say in the matter...in fact, I reckon we should send him the bill for the damage in London.

Was a student, and I would never have been able to go without a student loan, likewise my girlfriend who is there now would not have been able to go.

I'll pay for the damage though.

No student loans would mean only people from rich families get University degrees.

[  ] Is a good idea

Excellent..That'll be £2.50 please :)

unless universities would have a scholarship system in which top students from poor backgrounds could get in for free.

We need less thickos and average students clogging up the education system IMO....since we can't get rid of the rich ones as we need them topay for stuff, the stupid poor ones will have to go first....unless they get a  job.

Boldie, April fools day was yesterday mate.

Seriously, I reckon we should go back to the old beautiful British way where the toffs go to uni and the poorer people work in service of the toffs.

Poor people don't need an education..they only waste it by reading The Sun anyways. If you can't be arsed reading The Times or, if need be, the Daily Torygraph you have no business being enrolled in one of Brittain's finest educational institutions.


God Save the Queen!

Someone's put someting in the Scottish water system (except Tanks obv)

Reading a few papers this morning most of the pictures are taken with 4-5 protestors surrounded by 20+ police and 4000 people from the press taking pictures.

From the BBC G20 update blog.

For a moment I thought these riots were a result of Tighty postponing Reverse Sheep. Nevertheless, I performed a quiet riot in the confines of my own home. Farce.

If you chastise the protests against the financial institutions because the protesters are costing the government and the people of this country money you would be enjoying a ride on a helterskelter in dreamworld. Jamie from Jamie and his Magic Torch did that and it looked fun, so whatever. But be aware that's a pretty stupid thing to say.

Interview of the year!

Sky News to Russell Brand.

"Why are you here?"

"Same reason as all these people".

"And what reason is that?"

(coy look), "err........."

He's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer....

I don't understand what you mean.

in what way?

Errr, the banks are costing the country billions. The protesters broke a few windows and stuff.

I was in my local RBS branch the other day when I saw a RBS piggy bank on the counter with some smug poster about watching the pennies. Man, I coulda picked that pig up and smashed it on the floor. I didn't. But I coulda.

Thanks - I really didn't understand what you were getting at

but

The banks are also making the country billions

The net contribution of the banks to society >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> net contribution of the protestors

I disagree Jon. I would say the sum total of the protesters net worth to society>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sir Fred Goodwin alone.

wow are you that skint??

You not seen his PHA posts?

Pls ban this troll

rotflmfao

You are joking arent u?
Please?

Your saying that a bunch of worthless fools are worth more to society than a man who successfully ran a huge business for 8 years?

Given that the main point of a protest is to raise awareness and get media exposure, as the protestor:mediaman ratio seems to be about 1:10, that would suggest that these protestors are far from worthless, and are actually very efficient at what they do. They didn't even have to set themselves on fire.

The main point was to protest against the banks, or the war, or the environment - all three answers were given by different protestors : what were they raising awareness of?

The RBS under Fred Goodwin sought £12billion from shareholders in last year's rights issue. They encouraged thousands of regular people to invest in the bank by buying shares at £2 each. They provided all the figures to convince people the investment was solid...and they did this just before the bank lurched into crisis. That's a pretty big offence vs society in my mind. If you defraud thousands of people out of their savings then I figure you commit a bigger offence against society vs bricking a window. People auto-believe the protesters are the villains. But I don't know who those dudes are, there could be doctors/nurses in that group? Who knows? What we do know is Fred Goodwin has little to protest about....considering the hugeness of his £8.4m pension.

Anyway, we don't agree who the worthless fools are. That's ok. But the fact the guy left in humiliation after a £15billion government bail out...that saw the bank's value plummet from £75billion to £4billion...suggests at best the dude was a real spaz-tard of a businessman.

Was it really his fault or just bad timing?
Was he aloud solely to decide they were buying ABN Amro?
If you were to work as a driver and delivered a package to the wrong person would you expect to lose your pension?
Could a 'real spaz-tard' get himself into that position in the first place?

I would be interested to know how many of the protestors have ever created a job for someone else.

 

Some of them created work for glaziers.