Very tenuously P: London marches and revolt

[Johnny Marr]

Felt like something of a non-event, although someone has died as a result of
the police cordon so perhaps there was more trouble than I picked up on.
There seemed to be the usual gaggle of contumely trouble makers without a
coherent message to protest behind. I'm not pleased with the way the world's
heading either but too many of the protestors were malcontents looking for a
fight and an opportunity for vandalism - there wasn't any particularly lucid
attempt to solve the global financial crisis, just a lot of sensationalist
placards about Eating The Rich and Fucking The Banks.

Again, there is a genuine and valid sense of discontent with world politics
across most of the country, in particular what seems like the blind reward
or salvation banks regardless of how well or how poorly they're being run,
but we wouldn't want to associate ourselves with basic thuggery, malevolence
and inchoate 'anarchism'. Sub-sixth form parades like yesterday's undermine
themselves by being so full of hot air and so lacking in ideas and
credibility.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Guy Ian Scott Pursey <
g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> Was anyone else in London yesterday for the protests?
>
> Interested in hearing what people made of it.
>
> Guy
>
>
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