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Today is the day it all goes down. The City is basically shutdown.

Will there be a full scale riot or will the police be able to prevent that. Basically something is gonna kick off but will be interesting to see to what extent. There is a lot of anger over the massive bail out of the banks which we are all gonna pay for and imo its right that people should express this anger.

Bollocks - just a load of fucking spoilt students with nothing better to do and some "extreme" pillocks that are just looking for something to put their name against........

Lock the fucking lot of 'em up if they step out of line......

eugh - what exactly will protesting achieve? - you cant undo something thats already been done? - most them them look like a load of old hippys that could do with having a wash and getting a job anyway - probably dont even pay taxes - I think some people just liek ahvign aprotest for the sake of it so it can feel like the olden days

Im more interested in what Michelle Obama is wearing! ;)

Protesting got rid of Diamandis in the end, so in our case it achieved an awful lot.

If the people want to protest, then let them.  I love it, the million strong anti-war protest was brilliant.  I really should go along to one of these protests one day, let's hope there's a people's protest against the way the MP's abuse their power,  I wouldn't mind joining in that.

And the "what's protesting going to achieve" well I'm glad that some Town fans protested a year or so ago, okay we may not have even played a part in what actually happened (or maybe we did) but it was good to let the old board what we felt.

Power (but not too much) to the people!!

  Shut down? Hmmm, I dont know one person who works there that hasn't gone to work today, bar me and thats only because my meeting was cancelled due to a knee injury.

Cue TalkTalk...

I got into Kings Cross fine this morning, collegue just came back from Liverpool St.

Again no problems

Fucking hippies.

What exactly are they protesting about?  do they even know?


errrr, some people are rich and stuff.   errrrr, we dont like them. Down with gloabalisation!  whatever that means!

Very little to note at Waterloo this morning.  Although I did see someone wearing dredlocks.

Sections of the press are going to be gutted if the 'violent protests' don't materialise.

I'm sure they are passing cans of special brew to tramps as we speak! Or putting on jeans and balaclavas behind the bank of england, cant have a non story!

Not as gutted as the police will be. They've been building up the testosterone for month. They need to crack some hippy skulls today or some badly parked motorist will get a kicking when they get back to their beat.

Luckily the overtime will soften it a bit.

eugh Russell Brand is there - Im completley repulsed - stop giving these mongs airtime on sky newsplease!!

Well I work providing tech support for Lloyds and all their staff who work in their offices and branches in the City are working from home today.

 Better than some old slapper from big brother all over the screens.

I dont know anyone from Lloyds though, sound like right poofs!

We've been told to avoid going to our London office if possible, but if needs must to use the security entrance.

Nobody seems to have bothered me today so I assume they're not in the office which makes my day a little easier.

Protest away hippies :)

Ah but apparently he's an "anarcho-capitalist" not a proper anarchist, and most of the protests are anti-capitalists, not TT-style ultra-capitalists. So presumably, the proper anarchists will be chucking bricks at the coppers, the anarcho-capitalists will be selling them the bricks

"We want anarchy!!!  When do we want it?  Errrm, whenever we feel like it!!"

Well I admire the people willing to get off their arses and protest,I do think that any message has been diluted because no one seems to be that sure what they are protesting about and sometimes these things seems to be attended by the same load of scruffy herberts.But its all good and I hope at least 1 Macdonalds get wrecked .

Scruffy herberts! tee hee! thats the kind of thing my stepdad would say!  :soapy tit wank:

The only people who actually agree about why there are there are the ones determined to kick off. 

The was some small scale trouble with the police on sky news an hour ago.

Stuck inside work with little chance of getting out would not mind but I have a ticket for the England game , I hate these crusty fuckers just hop they piss off before 4pm so I can get to Footy

Get yourself tooled up with stationary and kill the fuckers.  I think Flamable ben should give you a quid for each confirmed kill.

It is all really surreal I am working on the ground floor of the Bank of England we can hear lots of noise but because there are no windows on the bottom 2 floors we have to watch whats going on via bbc news on the tinternet.

Ninja Paper Cut Death Squad?

 :D

Too bloody right!

If I was there I wouldn't be mixing with the unwashed 'I hate everything but I haven't got any better ideas' tosspots, I would be at this:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71409674873 (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71409674873)

Thats the one. if that fails bring out the heavy artilery (staple gun)

Sky news seem to be doing their live feed from a mobile phone camera. And not a good one at that

A couple of choice quotes from the guardian blog:

Protestors smashed windows of RBS went in side and apparently took computer equipment. I would assume they smashed this rather than took it home.

Also said on BBC some protestors got on the roof of RBS but didn't see footage of this.

It said on the news this morning that the bank workers had been told to dress down so that they were able to mingle in with the protesters to get in and out!

 :D

God I know - Its terrible - how are they getting away with just doing that? hurting my delicate eyes

Death to capitalism!

Death to all those who make money!

anyone want a 2nd hand PC for £50?

No thanks mate, I have 2 already

Your capitalist greed and waste of resources has ruined my plan for the re-distribution of wealth.  ie from other people to me

Apparently Russell Brand is protesting:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/04/01/russell-brand-joins-g20-protesters-115875-21245413/

Surely not against buying and selling stuff i.e. capitalism:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Booky-Wook-Memoir-Stand-Up/dp/0061730416

 

Although I have heavily slated Brand I don't think its fair to say just cos someone's written a book they can't go to a protest or be into anti-capitalist ideas.

Its not the writing a book bit that makes him a hyporcritical cunt, its selling it for a profit. 

Apparently protesters are throwing keyboards at the coppers and BoE has been smashed up....

RBS staff waving tenners out the windows at the unwashed casuing a riot is my favourite story of the day.

As the branch was closed and there were no staff in there, I think you've been sold a pup there Dazza. And p2p, BoE is fine, there were a couple of windows broken at RBS and some internal damage - couple of hard drives nicked according to the Beeb.

Bank of England, sorry t'was a mate from RBS that sent me the linkage!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/G20-Arrests-As-Protesters-Gather-In-London---Thousands-Take-To-The-Streets/Article/200903415252669?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15252669_G20%3A_Arrests_As_Protesters_Gather_In_London_-_Thousands_Take_To_The_Streets__

Just seen this on the news. Fucking do-gooders, when they are just as bad. The police should have smacked the cunts even more.

I was in London all day yesterday and all we really saw was some rally thing at Trafalgar Square.  I have to say all we really saw were scruffs, hippies with peace signs and people drinking lager there for the jolly up.

I waved at you but you didnt see me

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who doesn't quite understand these protests.

And a quote from Russell Brand:


Well, thanks for clearing that up for us then Russell.

i was in london yesterday so thought i would wander up to the city to take in some rioting. was very disapointed in the standard of rioting, basically was all middle class students with too much to lose to really let go. shame a good rampage is always fun to watch.