DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

a friend (currently in Paris funnily enough) tweets: STUDENTS, GET TO SKY HQ. KAY BURLEY IS YOUR NEXT TARGET

Mark, I don't think the aim of the Stop the War protests was to get news coverage. Otherwise it would have been called the Get News Coverage protests. There's a significant clue in the name. It failed.

(Bad use of grammar there, sorry)

dg, g20 riots were general anti-capitalism things, pretty untargeted. my point mentioning them is that you can riot in the streets and get on tv.

if you want to get on the news while minimizing the number of people who have nothing to do with your campaign who get caught up, ascending a tower block does not seem like a smart move.

unless you do it King Kong style

conservative party have like two floors in millbank. they have an actual central office round the corner too. now that's box office.

matt, i think the street the LD HQ is on was blocked off when it started getting violent

Pluck Theresa May screaming from her office

if you want to get on the news while minimizing the number of people who have nothing to do with your campaign who get caught up, ascending a tower block does not seem like a smart move.

er smarter than rioting in oxford street surely

They are only in Milbank now IIRC, the old central office at 32 smith square, irony of ironies, is the London office of the European Parliament.

xp, don't know what we're talking about now

Mark, I don't think the aim of the Stop the War protests was to get news coverage. Otherwise it would have been called the Get News Coverage protests. There's a significant clue in the name. It failed.

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i am not sure if this 'riot' is likely to succeed in its aim of getting fees f**ked

Two forms of useless action, which one is more fun for bored students?

Well, the poll tax riot, oh wait...

ken, no, neither am I. But then I'm not sure that the mostly peaceful aspect of the protest today will succeed either.

Imagine how awesome it'd be if a bunch of disenfranchised child benefit recipients torched their nearest Conservative Club.

This is just more tired 80s revivalism really.

ed, you are correct

90s revivalism surely? There was an illegal rave in the centre of London last weekend.

Fucking hell was the Poll Tax riot 1990? lol old. Was thinking of the early 80s riots tho tbf

All togethr now: "I think it's so groovy now, that people are finally gettin' together..."

But then I'm not sure that the mostly peaceful aspect of the protest today will succeed either.

Of course it won't, it'll be totally obscured by reports of the violence for one thing.

I'm surprised Tory HQ is victim to the nanny state elf 'n' safety madness fire extinguisher requirement.

I do want to reiterate that I'm not unequivocally supporting this escalation. I'm just, I guess, understanding it.

Also, has this actually become a 'violent' protest? There's property damage, sure, but I'd consider that to be a different thing.

80 revivalism isn't going far enough, gotta go all out with the retro and publicly lynch G. Osborne if you want to make a real difference.

80s*

@PennyRed: Woman with blood running down her face: 'I didn't raise my hand to anyone. I was just trying to get in the building. A policeman whacked me'

Sounds pretty violent to me.

1780s revivalism!

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Hey, let's not bring my family into this, please.

WD, shit, have the cops started being particularly awful again? Hadn't actually heard anything of that ilk yet, was hoping that maybe their techniques had finally improved.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03cnc4v9hL4Kl/610x.jpg

^^^^^ would smash

(I am so so sorry)

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would smash the system

This is the violence of the disposessed. They are not a minority. They are young and scared and angry. Listen before condemning.
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have nothing against the protests -- i want a job in academia, and a well-paid one too, borrowing £27k to go to uni is crazy -- but you know, no

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0aZqfmD5Ty0lR/610x.jpg

where's that thread about hot rioters?

That guy was inside the reception way before anyone else.

Dude can afford Tennant's and cigs, can't be that hard up.

Riot cops on horses now. Sheesh. This is the 1780s. Where's Mad Uncle George?

kronenberg, yet

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0aMk4F131zdCP/610x.jpg

Where's Mad Uncle George?

Probably in the Treasury where he usually is...

If I owned a pub in Westminster I'd be putting all prices down by £2 just for the day...

Oh yeah, it was Kronenberg. See, I can't even remember what that shit looks like.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/060Oddr28a5r8/610x.jpg

There's a riot going on...and it's in my pants!

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/08hU4wAdzMcRM/610x.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MxKt4.jpg

i see what he did there

some kind of lied/laid pun?