Third Round : Capitalists 2, Anti-Capitalists 0
The trustafarian anti-capitalists having taken quite a beating in last few matches in the City:
The 1999 Carnival Against Capitalism saw an estimated 5,000 people converge on the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE). In the early afternoon a small group of protesters broke into the exchange building, smashed up the reception area and tried to access the LIFFE trading floor, but were repelled by LIFFE traders in hand-to-hand fighting on the escalators. Outraged floor traders counter-attacked and drove terrified protestors out of the building.
However, the 2005 match saw the anti-capitalists take their worst beating so far. This post match report from The Times gives a flavour:
WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail. What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement. “We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”
Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”
Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said. They were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. “They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said. “It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back.”
Mr Beresford said: “They followed the guys into the lobby and kept kicking and punching them there. They literally kicked them on to the pavement.” Last night Greenpeace said two protesters were in hospital, one with a suspected broken jaw, the other with concussion.
G20 protestors really do not want to meet a Lloyd’s Broker who has just had his gin and tonic spilt…
UPDATE : Am a bit worried that Miss Fawkes, aged 1 and 1/2, could be an anti-capitalist saboteur. Have just spent an hour searching for wallet hidden by her. Hmm…
Good! Nice to see the market working properly.
“but were repelled by LIFFE traders in hand-to-hand fighting on the escalators”
PRICELESS!!
Stop trying to kid people you pathetic wannabe. You’ve never been anywhere near the LIFFE trading floor. If you had you would know that the escalators are incredibly long and they set them all to going down, and fast. The SAS couldn’t storm it. The floor traders dropped their security shutters at the top cowered on the trading floor and didn’t venture out on to the street for a long time. The demonstrators smashed up the reception and doors with scaffolding poles and did the dssame to the nearby HSBC Investment Bank.
In 1999 the demonstrtors succeeded in their objective they stopped all traffic in the City for several hours and so reclaimed the streets. They had an excellent party and confused the hell out of the police many of whom were overcome with emotion.
Swampy,
Guido was working as a trader in Tokyo at the time so that report is not first hand. However in the mid-nineties Guido was a futures broker and a LIFFE floor gold badge holder, so funnily enough do actually know the layout of the the building.
You have never stopped the City. Maybe you scared a few secretaries into going home early. Hopefully see you this afternoon.
You idiot the police were forced to stop all traffic in the City because of the sporadic and disbursed actions by the demonstrators. Just three people could stop the traffic and when the traffic was stopped the police couldn’t respond because of the ensuing traffic congestion, so the police stopped all traffic in the City for several hours. Now as you claim to have been on the other side of the world or in prison at the time, selling time shares or yourself, perhaps you should stick to something that actually you know anything about. It was just a party, if occasionally the police got heavy handed they were dealt with appropriately and proportionately.
dispersed
“the demonstrtors succeeded in their objective they stopped all traffic in the City for several hours”
And when the “demonstrators” went back to their mum’s, traffic resumed and nothing had changed.
The same will happen again, only this time the greenazis will be wearing designer anarkyst t-shirts at £30 a pop.
Who,
That’s what happens after a party or festival, but maybe you’ve never been to one. The traffic started again but something had changed. Have you had a look at the Conservative Party logo recently? Have you seen Cameron’s house with its wind millette? Seen his ‘recycled’ trainers? Things have changed, just not enough.
Swampy, you are deluded if you think most people in this country have any time for the Green lobby. They love consumer capitalism too much.
That must explain why the Conservatives have tried to coopt so many green cloaks. Perhaps you are wrong, some of them have children and a brain.
They do that to gain sympathy from the Guardian, BBC etc. If you look at the polls the environment is way down the list of concerns of most people. Furthermore the Tories aren’t calling for the overthrow of capitalism.
How juvenile swampy. now run along home to mummy before mr. plod gives you a spanking
IF the market was allowed to work PROPERLY these fucks would be out of a job! Don’t forget their business are BROKE!!!! They are being supported up by the Taxpayer!! So lets not get smart arsed about how clever the sad little fucks are!!! There in no pride in these market losers.
We need a vision to heal capitalism.
http://moneyistheway.blogspot.com/2009/03/financial-times-vision.html
know nothing twat – these are not Banks…
Douchebag, just because the idiot chancellor props up a crappy building society or two doesn’t mean that the city is broke. Plenty of firms have called this crisis right and *made* money out of it.
Not quite how I remember it. No mention of sprinklers, and I have a figure of £700,000,000 in my head for some reason
Swampy you are a Huhne
I hope a horse runs you down
Huhne = Hoon
C*** = Hoon
Ah the parallels with Berlin in the 1930′s continue. Shares in Armaments companies anyone?
I was in the LIFFE building. The riot police did most of the work repelling the protesters.
I was also in LIFFE on that day and what happened was more amusing than a scuffle in the lobby.
There are 2 very long escalators from the entrance (where most of the fracas occurred ) up to the offices and trading floor. Normally one goes up and one goes down.
Several of the invaders made it to the escalators, but were thwarted by the simple measure of switching both escalators to go down. This part was pure comedy. They never made the top.
I have seen that in so many “physical comedy” sketches but for it to happen in real life…
The fact that decent people going about their lawful business have to defend themselves against ZaNu Labour street thugs says it all about McBust’s Britain.
I remember reading accounts of this incident the following day. I thought that the occupants of the ofices showed real style when they leant out of the windows and tore up £5 notes which they then dropped onto the enraged sans coulottes below!
It also helped that the concierges were able to throw the escalators into reverse.
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Has anyone noticed that Pres Obama is driving around town in an 8 ton Cadillac. He really is a climate criminal and er planet polluter man, who does not care about his carbon footprint. Why can’t he ride his bicycle around like that nice Dave Cameron.
Apparently Clarkson is going to take it round the Top Gear Test track, Hammond has a programme planned where he drives it off a ramp in order to explain ballistics to small children, and May has a loan of it in late August to tow a caravan and a boozing mate round the Scottish distilleries.
he’ll get stopped and beaten by
the police
Our beloved leader has made the April Fool’s front page of Wikipedia, in esteemed company too.
“Did you know that Gordon Brown and Kim Jong-Il are both known for their athletic abilities?”
Gordon_Pride must be very proud.
Kick a hippy for me Guido.
Snotty is beyond a joke.
In his sermon yesterday he made sly digs at D Cameron.
In a fucking cathedral!
Brown is a retard.
I see the McLackey has adopted the awkward posture of craning his neck like Santa Obama. What does he believe is up there – UFOs? Probably thinks it’s the way to ingratiate himself with Santa. Ever the congenital poseur. 100% tosser.
If your’re looking for Mammon, McUckoo, he’s not up there.
in a cathedral? so effing what?
Gordon is a fine athlete, and regularly goes jogging.
He is also known for exaggeration, spin and taking people for complete idiots and will trot out any garbage thought up by a slimeball without hesitation,repetition or deviation.
Gordon meets Mr Motivator
More support for Gordon…
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/137b240e-1e23-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
things are slowly moving his way. Over a year to go.
You really really don’t get it do you.
All could be milk and honey in the markets today but Brown and his trash are still going to be heaved out on their collective arses come the election whether that be 1 year of 5 years time Its everything else they have done to us and this country not just this ….even though it is bad enough.
I do hope you are rtght but in the last few weeks quite a few tory speakerrs have been very cocky about winning the election. Reminds me of Kinnock.
What is there to get? If your are a Tory or business man you believe in a free market. The Bankers were allowed that freedom, like all of us in business. They could not handle it, and have fucked it up. Their business is now insolvent. Not so clever. Because of their poor management we as taxpayers have to sort. So, our Government Tory or Labour has to sort the fucking mess out.
A few retail banks departed from their normal business model and paid the price.
The investment banks are still going strong in the city.
No they are not, honestly.
Conservatives = Rabbits in headlights
No, you are not honest.
ZaNu Labour = headless chicken
It won’t be when unemployment reaches 3.5 / 4 million.
Things are moving slowly his way, if he can hold the election off for another 60 years, by which time the debt he has lumbered us all with will be down to managable proportions he might squeak a hung Parliament.
W.W.
Haha, genius. And true.
I am polishing up my brogues and ironing my red braces before finishing off my breakfast of cavair and quails eggs (cooked by my slave labour) Filipino maid. I shall then drive my 4×4 Land Rover onto the tube and into the city, running over ghastly little oiks in hi vis vests seeking to solicit a penny of my hard earned bonus for starving little sambos somewhere.
After robbing the toiling masses of their money with a few strokes of my keyboard I shall retire for a 5 hour lunch at a ‘gentlemen’s club’ where I shall sneer and toss money at hollow-eyed Polish ‘lap dancers.’
If I find time after all this I shall happily kick the fuck out some dreadlocked crusty before retiring to my club for a few stiff gin and tonics.
Come on you know you are not even near to being nothing in the City you aren’t even in the City.
Conservatives = Rabbits in headlights
Sounds like fun! Can anyone join in?
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Fucking right, city boys and girls play hard and fight hard. Who would you want to take on, a dope-headed fuckwit who sits on his arse all day or rugby playing types (and that’s only the women) fueled on alcohol and coke?
No contest.
If it’s a really good punch-up I will Live Chat Sky or the BBC from 1:00pm, after everyone’s had lunch. . . The Daily Politics Live Chat, G20 Riot Edition”
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I’ve got no social skills…didn’t know where to stand when posing with Obama and his wife just now outside No 10. What a tit I am…and a bit of a Huhne too.
He’s a fucking embarrassment. Is a pitty the Pres’ security detail didn’t take the jaw-dropping fuckwit out.
The Americans always did have good manners.
It’s because they can carry guns. Mind your Ps & Qs or get hot lead in return – a leftover from the code of duello.
‘Course when you need your local sociopath plugging you’re out of luck – shame really…
And of course the BBC News website has two alternating photos of Obama and Snotty on the No 10 doorstep.
The BBC is so blinded by leftism that they can’t see they are infatuated by style, not substance.
Obama has been crap so far.
And when he was a senator he was bought and paid for by the Home Loans industry, which he protected.
No he is gonna save the world with his lackey, Snotty.
Give us a break…
Did Brown make the photocall with Obama or was he stuck on the bog having a shit again?
Has McFuckwit got his sock tucked into his troooser leg this time?
Surprise, surprise “make it up McGuire” was on the Beeb this morning as Obama’s convoy rolled towards No. 10. They must be getting desperate.
Question: was every network left looking as incompetent as the beeb this morning? The pretty much missed the approach of the convoy. McGuire and the rest said “yeah its a 20-odd vehicle convoy and when it rolls-you know about it.”
Cut to the arse end of the convoy 100 yards from Downing st and that smug idiot Turnbull goes “oh they must have an invisibility cloak!”
Pathetic.
56. He knows he made a mistake, and will be careful to tuck both trousers into the appropriate sock.
Believe me, if it were physically possible to cross tuck them Gordon would be your man
“two protesters were in hospital, one with a suspected broken jaw, the other with concussion”
These scum won’t get off that easy once the English working class gets stuck into them – only a few years to wait now.
exactly.
those greenie fuckwits got a taste of red-blooded working class anger from those City boys.
As usual I will be armed today
Id love to shoot/stab/beat some of the Hoons to death.
Armed with your butt-plug wedged up your fat arse as usual, you slimy gobshite.
Great weather for a punch up. Come on lads!
Do you think you could postpone the riot for a few minutes as I have a doctors appointment at 1.30pm
No sickies!
Specially if they’re as fat as you!
Early doors Tuscan subedit; if you meant to refer to the insurance market broker there absolutely must be an apostrophe in “Lloyd’s”, properly to differentiate it from the bank.
TT,
As ever, am grateful for your unpaid input. Will we be seeing you for lunch?
Could be a classic.
A light salad, some breadsticks and a glass or two of Badoit would be fun – will be in touch.
Since when have either of you had a “light” lunch
G20 protesters really do not want to meet a futures or derivatives trader who has just had his pay frozen, bonus cut to nothing, has been informed that his income tax is going up to 45% shortly to fund the public sector spending splurge, and that his job might be moving overseas anyway as corporation tax in the UK is among the highest in the world.
Why pay good money for white collar boxing sessions when you can have a good crack at G20 protesters for nothing?
Beast, thats some weapons system you have there. A few free fall parachuting lessons and you could cause as much mayhem at a labour party conference, as the bird with the rape allarm.
Petrol Tax Up!
MP’s Expenses topped up!
Civil servants awarded pay rise!
High Security for Mr Obama disrupting central London and Gordon gets ready to drop his trousers and back up.
Vs.
Pissed barrow boys have a punch up with hairy shirt brigade riot police help them.
Plots rumour and conspiracy?
also MP’s pensionsto be topped up it seems “sigh”
You missed Business Rates up too.
But only 2% now and the rest staggered – and we are meant to be grateful for the Chancellor’s compassion with our plight.
FFS
Oh and MP pensions topped up as well just in case there was some loose change down the back of my sofa.
Did anyone notice – not one non-white face in the protester crowd.
Most Asians are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants, their parents came here to embrace capitalism. Many Blacks live in horrible, poor areas… they love capitalism.
Only privileged, trust fund crusties brought up on private education, BBC Socialism and Middle Class Guardianista-revolution actually like this stuff.
God bless those City boys… all those rugby lessons came in useful
Exactly.
Can’t wait to see Polly Toynbee get stuck in.
5 points for an enviro-loon, 10 for an anarchist, 25 for a NoooooLieBore MP.
What sort of simpleton would have a centre for anarchy?
A lot of stuff n nonsense, it’ll be over without a whimper
Cant wait to see McDoom’s latest faux pas, orange dots on his face, smeared lip stick, chicken satay stick stuck in his teeth, piss stains on his trollies, trouser legs in his socks, hopefully all these will happen.
OT: New BBC policy when commenting on their blogs….
All Nick Robinsons blog entries are now ‘closed for new comments’.
As he only blogs when he has something that makes labour look good his postings have been a sporadic – maybe a week or more between postings. So the end of the previous blog ends up with lots of comments asking why he hasn’t made a new entry on this that or the other (as if we didn’t know).
Seems he would rather not hear what the public think (maybe he got that tip off one of his government handlers too)…
Come the revolution… come the revolution…
i want the stig to drive barack obama car round the top gear test track that wouls certainly give the Cia bodyguards some tips.
kill a trustafarian, thye are only palying at being poor. As Pulp said in common people.
“Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they’re laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do
Because you think that poor is cool.
They’ll tear your insides out
`cos everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it’s all such a laugh”
Wish I could be there, but am at the other end of the country. Guido, when the fun starts are you going to be blogging via your mobile? Would like a none BBC spin on things.
I look forward to the damp eyed, angst ridden bbc report on how the peace loving protestors were cordoned off in a sidestreet and not allowed to go to the toilet for 12 hours (for a vegan on a macrobiotic diet that must truly be hell on earth).
‘Hell on earth’? – just for his friends – if he has any – and he won’t after 12 hours.
Many of the swampy, grungy, loonies are there just to cause trouble, damage property and hurt people. They seem to think that Police are not human and cannot feel pain or become disabled by their actions. I know of one ex Bobby who is in a wheel chair with a broken back due to these ‘honest’ demonstrators.
As far as I’m concerned the Police should use tear gas, water canon and rubber bullets to dispel the protestors if they turn violent, which many always do, no matter what the peace spouting jerks say on early morning TV. They would really have something to moan about if they had a lung full of CS gas, a blast from a rubber bullet and a good washing down with water canon instead of just not being able to take a leak. If they got soaked at least it would hide the stains of wee!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5083483/Mechanic-wins-400000-after-cutting-finger-on-knife-in-police-car.html
let’s hope they don’t cut their fingers
It’s interesting to see Guido lining up behind Gordon Brown, his hedge-fund friends, and the increasingly politicised Metropolitan Police.
The alternative is worse – unwashed anarcho-communist hooligans.
Not really, worse will be more of the same in the benefit box (HoC). McRuin must go “whatever it takes”
I like a bit of rough. They make much better lovers. You soft nancy boys are hopeless.
Err, lining up for the show and my friends in the City. Absolutely.
Lets not get too clever, remember the Bankers have well and truly fucked their businesses. If their were out in the real world like a proper business they would be bust with nothing, their business and business models are broke. In a the real marketplace they are losers…. think losers.
applause
Yes, but since bankers of the fucked-up business type comprise less than 2% of the City workforce, I think we can ignore your judgement. The FX, equity broking, commodities, corporate finance, insurance, etc., etc. markets are all doing fine. It’s just the Scottish banks that have screwed it all up.
Move over lads, give the women a chance
http://tinyurl.com/cb85sy
Meanwhile, does anyone know of a good source for sick bags? I foolishly watched a bit of the early BBC coverage of today in London. A static camera outside the Obama residence all set to catch what they called the ‘breaking news’ of his visit to Downing St the ‘breaking’ aspect of the news seemed to be that his entourage and 8-ton car were leaving a bit late: not deterred however the BBC kept its camera trained on the potential scene of excitement, holding up its real news coverage!
Will there ever be an end to the BBC Obama wet dreams, I wonder?
Excuse subterfuge over name, slight disagreement with Guido’s new moderation!
Nothing to excuse, my dear.
Perfectly understandable…
I was also in LIFFE on that day and what happened was more amusing than a scuffle in the lobby.
There are 2 very long escalators from the entrance (where most of the fracas occurred ) up to the offices and trading floor. Normally one goes up and one goes down.
Several of the invaders made it to the escalators, but were thwarted by the simple measure of switching both escalators to go down. This part was pure comedy. They never made the top.
Anyone fancy a spot of anal?
Threesome?
Nowt’s gonna happen – you’ve been spun.
How can all these crusty, dreadlocked, arm-pit festering protestors afford to take a day off work?
Perhapa they’re allowed 25 days annual leave pa like everybody else, you thick tw@t.
hey, lol, perhaps the lazy, stinking, unwashed tossers don’t actually have a job, you thick twat.
Ratsniffer
It sounds like you dont’ have a proper job either if you’re wasting your time posting shite on here all day. Admit it, you’re just another 14 year old internet gobshite bunking off school.
They don’t work
Fuck off scabies. I work, I pay PAYE, but I have a day off today. I’d rather take it up the arse from a bull elephant than claim the Nat King Cole.
First they came for the krusties……
Good point. If anyone should feel the need to put the boot in anyone today do make sure that the taker is wearing a uniform.
The youth of today makes me despair. Smash the banks. Oh right on. If you are going to protest then at least make yourself useful and burn out some police cars.
Pfft. What a total fuckwit.
I phoned 999 this morning to report to the police that two squirrels were fighting in my garden but they refused to come saying Gordon Brown had ordered them all into London to tazer political dissidents.
What is this country coming to?
already fell for an april fool
a french pole vaulter running naked thru paris.
Quango – bloody funny.
Exactly – this has been my message on various blogs ever since news of this “march” began to circulate.
What do these collectivists think will happen when you try and take or destroy these people’s property and living?
The Climate/Collectivists want people to submit “earth and water” to them, but we know it means slavery and death. THIS IS SPARTA!
These crusties better watch themselves. Those beefy city types in this tough economic climate are in no mood to be told what to do by some trustafarian right now.
Give em a hot bath and 200 hours community service.
“Beefy city types” my arse. Bespectacled weedy little mummies boys, and spoilt little Cassandras more like. Poncey office workers like them couldn’t kick the skin off a rice pudding.
I should know, I get the pathetic specimens faffing about in my gym every day.
Come into my office you arsehole and i would fucking burst you
ROTFLMFAO
I cycle round London every day as a courier. These City boys are the weediest bunch of wankers I’ve ever seen. It’s a good job they’ve got the boys in blue to protect them from a mob of rampaging hippies. LOL
Metals Trader – what? Take him up the ass like your daddy used to do to you? Get a boyfriend.
Max – seriously mate, I think you should see someone if you were sexually abused
Metals – just a bit of fun – random abuse is better than watching Gordon suck off Obama in the hallowed (well, I guess they were once) halls of the FCO – pass the puke bucket big time.
PersonalTrainer – you want to try some white-collar boxing in the City, see how tough you really are
Personal trainer? training for what? going to the office?
Actually it takes a degree of courage on the part of the crusties. I used to know a hunt saboteur who told me some gory tales of how they were set upon by strong-as-hell farm hands…
What’s think of ‘e, then? ‘Im be worryin’ MOY SHEEP!!!
Sounds like a good punch up, or assault while under the influence of alcohol, depending on whether you are an anarchist or not.
Nice point
In other news today:
Brown puts up petrol price
Stock markets are tanking
High street sales collapse
House prices falling faster
Obviously doesn’t ‘subscribe’ to the BBC…
http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2009/04/scoopis-britain-planning-on-joining.html
Brown to announce joining the Euro at the G20
Channel 5 have just show a photo of Jacqui Smith coming out of an Ann Summers sex shop with a carrier bag.
What’s that all about?
Perhaps Dick Tingly can enlighten us?
The bag is empty…
see daily mail
She tried the products in-store, she has a smile on her face.
Nah, she just tried the bodyarmour/dildo combi – best thing for when you’re popping down to the nearest kebab shop in Peckham.
Photoshopped.
Look at the area around the feet.
No shit Sherlock!
And for the more gullible among us…
Posted this earlier
anonybot says:
April 1, 2009 at 6:52 am
Has Jacqui put it this on April’s expenses?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166245/Oh-Jacqui-surely-you.html-
Look at the date but it doesn’t count after 12 noon.
Link
Most of the time I drop by this blog and feel like I’m amongst like minded people. Other times though….
Most of the comments on the G20 protests remind of the Republican and Democrat activists in the U.S. who would both agree that the system was fundamentally screwed, yet come election time they would forget all that and everything once again became a distracting partisan boxing match.
Yes I fundamentally disagree with the philosophy espoused by many of the so-called “anti-capitalists”. Those that have anything resembling a coherent philosophy that is. I don’t support the idea of the police giving them a beating or any other similar offensive nonsense. And this is despite having hostile relations with some of the left’s usual suspects.
One of the main reasons I resigned from the city was because working there any longer I was liable to become the City’s first office serial killer, blasting one trader after another in the face with a shotgun because so many of them are reprehensible beyond belief Hoons. And most of you commenting here give them your unqualified support, all in the name of extracting some visceral pleasure from the idea of “swampy” getting a beating. Shame on you. It could be you next on the receiving end of Plod’s attention.
Applause!!
I sympathise, my downwardly mobile friend. Plod, crusties and barrow boys all merit a good kicking and we should not be over-fussy about who administers it to whom. For what it’s worth, your old grandmother is probably least likely to be pushed around by a barrow boy but there is no setting the precedence between a louse and a flea.
Greeting the Obamas in Downing St today, Gordon Brown kissed Barack Obama and shook hands with Michelle.
What a fookin clown!
Brown cocks it up with the Obamas again:
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=109997
BWAAAA-hahaha! Didn’t he also shake hands with his wife after she introduced him at Conference? A bufti or a buffoon, for sure. Quite likely both.
Brown makes another gaffe greeting the Obamas:
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=109997
I like the bit, from the Al Ja Beeb article:
“Elsewhere, police questioned at least six protesters in an armoured vehicle in the City of London. ”
Since when do protesters turn up in armoured vehicles?
although i have dressed down in my old uni hoody a few soap dodgers will be getting a smack at lunch time.
covert dressing: They’ll never see it coming.
‘covert dressing’? Surely Thousand Islands dressing you soft bastard.
Apparently there is a ‘Hoon Confiscation Law’ in effect in Australia. Perhaps we should try the same thing here?
Jacquboots has just released a DVD ‘keep fit with Jacqui’ Apparently it includes a stretch routine where she deals with truth and credibility. I look forward to the sequel where she does a particularly long stretch.
The BBC Obama wank-fest is sickening.
What a waste of time and money this ‘summit’ is.
All for Jonah’s ego….
The myth that Lloyd’s brokers (still the scum of the City to those of us who have REAL jobs in trading etc.) still only work to 11:00 and then start lunch is a pretty old one now. Close friends at Willis Corroon and TRM say that they would be sacked if they took more than an hour off these days and entertainment is usually done within that timeframe.
Is it true that the police operation to contain the demonstration is ” Operation Glencoe” ? I would assume this is an attempt at intimidation or just an unfortunate use of a well known massacre of unarmed civillians?
True.
http://twitter.com/juliareid21
…/damienpearse
…/alibunkall
…/alexwatts
Twitter reporters on the ground
Reminds me why I loathe these cock jockeys almost as much as I loathe the police.
I assume that the lack of ZaNu Labour commenters this morning is that they have all been posted to the ZaNu street gangs to bully and intimidate decent people going about their lawful business.
Nope, they’re all out lining Whitehall with US and UK flags screaming “Obama we love ya” and “Thank you Gordon for saving the world”.
Potemkin villages anyone?
G20 – Putin leads special panel live on BBC R4
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/emaildotcom/G20News#5319673155663488130
Excellent. I’m relying on family values and hard-working families to sort it out.
The Mob mentality is abhorrent – You fuckwits use this ‘Political’ Agenda to play Bully-Dress Up and run around,scare the Civilian Sheep and tear shit up,when the Police get the better of you cry Brutality-How Boring,Really
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“G20 protestors really do not want to meet a Lloyd’s Broker who has just had his gin and tonic spilt…”
Or any member of my extended family. Just don’t go there.
I’m sorry but I’m on the side of the folks on the street on this one, trustafarians or not.
Brown and his taxpayer bailed out (Northern, Scottish) banksters have undermined the free market more than any ranting, unwashed lefty – privatised profits, but socialised losses. Whatever happened to moral hazard? And all to cover for Brown’s asset bubble and incompetent tripartite regulatory regime. No wonder the pound has gone south.
And now the bailouts have failed – whatever happened to that £37bn might I ask?- the Nu Labour thieves are busy debasing the coinage by printing money. Capitalists? Risk takers? My arse. These banksters and Nu Labour have pissed more taxpayers money down the toilet than an army of one legged outreach diversity workers. If we’re going to have capitalism lets have the real stuff not this socialised shit.
From reading many of the comments posted on this blog it is clear to me at least why the Finanicial system is imploding – they are the comments of self affected individuals without an ounce of empathy.
The esocetric few that once understood what usury have been joined by many on main steet who now understand the effect of debt on their own lives.
As for the idiots claiming there is a still a business model in the City or New York – this so called business model is now causing the Bank of England to monetize debt for the first time in its history take a look at the charts for your Debt to GDP ratio for Gods sake and say that the City would be here today without this unpredecented injection of funds and the only reason many of your hedge funds et all are making money is to a large degree based on them creaming money off the CDO CDS OTC shell game that is AIG RBS etc and IS tax payer derived money and not due to any value add to the economy that the FIRE sector offers and it wont be the city paying for this it will be the working people and whats left of the UK productive / Manufacturing economy so many of you pour scorn on.
I would not like to be in the City if the beans are ever fully split to the public.
bit late on this
i was there, its absolute nonsense and a city myth the liffe traders came out to fight, security got in a ruck with the 4/5 people who got into the building, before riot cops sealed the door and entered the premises and threw the protesters out
in the meantime a BMW showroom was burning, every tube station in the square mile was closed and stockbrokers were cowering in their offices like the limp wristed public school boys they are