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Nicely written

Brilliant reportage, DG. Much appreciated.

I wonder how many others attended both? Glad you did, it made a good read.

I ended up staying in and watching the protest on tv, then going to Spitalfields City Farm

Looking from the outside Britain is beginning to look like it did in the 1970's.

I wasn't alive in the 70s, but I think that's just the media for you.

A snide dig at the (taxpaying) middle classes.

Yes, very clever DG.

We're all still waiting to hear what the Alternative to trying to reduce the £1 billion a WEEK we make in interest payments alone on our debt (thanks, Gordon!) is. Unfortunately, neither Mr Ed nor the firestarting idiots of W1 enlightened us. We hear how we ought to go all Keynesian and spend our way out of the recession, but that rather depends on having followed the flipside of Keynesianism, which relies on not having bankrupted yourselves by spending in the boom.

Yes but you weren't in the Half way to heaven the other night and by the sound of it the Trafalgar square was filled with over entitled little pricks, who having their youthful protest before settling into future careers as teachers or lecturers or social workers.

When a bunch a drag queens are praising the police and calling you a bunch of cxxx, you know your cause is lost.

It's all very well to demand that no cuts be ever made, but how do they expect the £150 billion shortfall to be made up. All in tax rises I expect, or do they expect borrowing to go on for forever.

"UK Uncut". I can think of a better way of re-arranging those letters to describe them.

Of course the Anarchist Movement (oxymoron) is just football hooliganism for lefties/greens.

Has the provisional wing of the young Conservatives latched onto this blog?

No Chris p, just a few people who understand economics and the mess the last governmint have left us. I was beginning to think I'm the only one. I am encouraged to see others finally speaking out here.

My woeful lack of knowledge about current events meant that I headed to Piccadilly to go shopping on Saturday. Mistake. I timed it so perfectly that when I stepped out of a shop, I got hit in the head by a placard-stick someone had thrown - someone from a crowd that hadn't been there thirty minutes prior.

Trying to make my way through the crowd to get the hell out of there, I had my hair pulled, got shoved around, ended up with beer from some drunk's can poured down my shirt, got thrown against a wall, and had had no less than three boozed-up, stoned, balaclava-clad men try to cop a feel.

Luckily, I stood out as a teary, frightened, clearly-not-a-protester lone woman and I was escorted to safety by a very nice riot policeman.

The vast, vast majority of protesters were peaceful, I'm sure. But outside Fortnum & Mason at about 4pm on Saturday afternoon there was definitely a sense of menace, and most definitely there was violence, and there were absolutely people specifically out to cause trouble.

We were still on Embankment when Ed was making his speech, surrounded by middle-class tax payers, protesting at the scale and speed of the cuts. Very well written post DG.

Are those that watch the boat race generally classed as upper class? Sloane square/henley lot.

All those people marching but what actual difference will they make? We need to pay debt and they don't want to tax the bankers or tax cheats (companies and individuals) so the general public foot the bill.



Good grief. Try to read some history and economics some of you, and recognise that the national debt is not the same as a credit card bill, no matter how much Cameron tries to pretend it is. Look at what this country is spending and planning to spend on the military, on refusing to tax bankers' bonuses, on getting rid of the 50% tax rate, on daft short term petrol tax giveaways, and stop saying we can't afford healthcare, disability support and education.

My god, it's like being on comment is free with all these Tory Trolls around...

Great post as always DG, I was marching myself on Saturday and saw no bother.

Apparently we all need to grow up/learn economics/toe the line.

Very glad I went and I'd do so again in a heartbeat, if "grown up" means utilising classic crisis capitalism tactics the, for me, viva adolescence...

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