Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

should be queuing at the butchers for black pudding and tripe FFS

Amazing.

Daily Mail combines sexy A-Levels with riots to bring you sexy rioters

‘I was frustrated and disappointed that people were smashing things again. I am angry about cuts as well but smashing things is not going to help.

ya, cuz voting and walking around waving cardboard are valid and effective means of protest.

Amazing.

Daily Mail combines sexy A-Levels with riots to bring you sexy rioters

who's trolling the comments "most of them are probs not even british and them and there parents have probs paid 0 tax and had everything handed to them in benifits. they have no right to complain about anything they have allready had more than what they deserve

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just watched a group of about 50 very cold looking kids with placards walking along embankment between blackfriars and waterloo bridges. they're completed surrounded by mounted police, being follwed by a train of EIGHT police vans, shadowed by a helicopter and were cut of just by monument by a road block of four police riot vans. flippin ridiculous.

hahaha

burn shit today kids - its fucking freezing.

to be fair since i typed that the rest of them... maybe a thousand or so just trudged past. blimey it looks miserable out there today.

They've got to run around to keep warm.

Met reckon they had no intention of kettling. Yeah right.

If so why the sudden change of plan?

The 'copter' keeps buzzing my office, it's quite annoying.

it's just occured to me that perhaps the police were just trying to direct them off the main road and back up towards fleet street (embankment came to a standstill for about an hour whicl this was going on).

Met Police explanation as posted on the Guardian site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/blog/2010/nov/30/student-protests-live-coverage

2.56pm:
The Metropolitan police have said the line of officers that formed across Whitehall this afternoon was not an attempt to contain protesters.
A statement on their website appears to be aimed at addressing some protesters' fears that they were going to be 'kettled' on Whitehall. Many protesters began marching down the street earlier this afternoon, but upon seeing a line of "hundreds" of police barring their way they turned and ran, causing the fragmented groups of protesters we are now seeing.
[INDENT]The Met police worked with organisers in advance to agree a suitable route from Trafalgar Square down to Parliament Square for a peaceful protest.
However, today's march set off at an earlier time than agreed. This meant that the march began without a police escort. The police escort was essential due to gas main works on one side of Whitehall.
As a result, a line of police officers formed a cordon across Whitehall. This line of police officers intended to steer the march to one side of the road and the agreed route. There was never any intention to contain the protesters.
The march then broke into small groups, travelling in different directions.
The march continues peacefully, however, it is causing some disruption for Londoners in the West End, in what are already difficult conditions due to the weather.
[/INDENT]I'll be speaking to Simon Hardy, one of the people behind the London demonstration, shortly to get his perspective on whether the march set off earlier than planned.

what weather? light drizzle?
what was happening around trafalgar square around 7:30pm today? massive
police force surrounding a dozen kids and closing trafalgar square.

wow that was fun lol.

Got put in a headlock and had my face kneed about 5 times by a police officer, and I was just there to photograph!!!!

was a good protest ruined by a few idiots on both sides.

was a good protest ruined by a few idiots

They've got matching jackets, how cute.

my coverage of the day:
http://guerillaphotography.tumblr.com/post/2060586104/dayx2-student-protests-london-30th-nov-2010

Good report. With all this fear of being kettled, I wonder why people then settled on Oxford Circus, which is where the first really notorious kettle was. (There had been others before then, but that was the one that hit the headlines.)

Very interesting report, but i have more questions:

How much internal friction is there among the protesters? Do the students get annoyed at those just out for a laugh or violence? Do any attempt to hold back those seeking destruction?

Obviously from what happened to you, the police often get heavy with people who are doing no harm, but are they having any success getting to people who are actually being destructive?

Was much actual damage done during the cat-and-mouse phase, or only once the protest was trapped?

utter fucking mongs.

Oh dear.

Obviously from what happened to you, the police often get heavy with people who are doing no harm, but are they having any success getting to people who are actually being destructive?

police aren't supposed (according the police handbook) to violently strike anyone who is not being violent (towards people).

utter fucking mongs.

Oh dear.

What is a 'mong' ?

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and i'll take some convincing that a punch to the face is ever the best way for a policeman to do anything legitimate. And i care about that. But I think it has been covered so that wasn't what i asked about. I just mentioned it in passing.