General strike/protest

[The Cowboy]

You are referring to the anti-establishment bunch that turn up at all the protests. Most are posh kids with a massive allowance.

99.9% of people who turn up are peaceful.

I know most are peaceful, I guess my point was that it always descends into rioting and looting, at massive public cost. And the real message usually gets lost beneath the headlines made by the looting.

 

[orchard]

It's not just coincidental.

I know most are peaceful, I guess my point was that it always descends into rioting and looting, at massive public cost. And the real message usually gets lost beneath the headlines made by the looting.

 

[bol-uk]

I know most are peaceful, I guess my point was that it always descends into rioting and looting, at massive public cost. And the real message usually gets lost beneath the headlines made by the looting.

True. I once got involved in a Reclaim The Streets protest in Brixton, out of it on special brew and gurners I decided to throw bricks at the coppers, smashh all the lights and windows on the black marias and try to roll one of them over. I got jumped by a load of riot cops, battered and sent to Belmarsh for 4 moths to spend time with the Krays!

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

There will be ex servicemen losing benefits and dignity but somehow graffiti is more of an outrage.
Maybe the graffiti daubed on St. George's Hall means that anyone arguing for immigration control should not be allowed a voice.
Part of any fight against totalitarianism is for the right to dissent. And if people join in the debate to discredit the idea of dissent itself then they become a threat to democracy. And easy to manipulate by any state.

*The Dalai Lama likes this

 

[magicjuan]

I know most are peaceful, I guess my point was that it always descends into rioting and looting, at massive public cost. And the real message usually gets lost beneath the headlines made by the looting.

You've just described parliament and the alleged democratic process.

 

[oldblue]

If any protestor commits an offence anywhere near as bad as this then I'll condemn them

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3483853




'More suicides' in government disability test areas
By Michael BuchananSocial Affairs Correspondent, BBC News

• 17 November 2015
  
• From the sectionUK

Image copyrightPA

Nearly 600 suicides in England may be associated with the government's "fit-for-work" tests, research suggests.

Oxford and Liverpool researchers looked at 2010-13 data and also found the Work Capability Assessments could be linked to a rise in mental health problems.

The study found the areas with most WCAs showed the sharpest increases.

The government said the report was "wholly misleading" and the authors had cautioned that no conclusions could be drawn about cause and effect.

 

[orchard]

Same here trying to save some bees.

True. I once got involved in a Reclaim The Streets protest in Brixton, out of it on special brew and gurners I decided to throw bricks at the coppers, smashh all the lights and windows on the black marias and try to roll one of them over. I got jumped by a load of riot cops, battered and sent to Belmarsh for 4 moths to spend time with the Krays!

 

[The Cowboy]

Same here trying to save some bees.

Were you specifically targeted by the police? Y'know, like a sting operation?

 

[orchard]

Were you specifically targeted by the police? Y'know, like a sting operation?

Were you there? They used a funnel to ply me with shandy next to a statue until I weed myself and the Mail photographer took pictures.

 

[Tubey]

Oxford and Liverpool researchers looked at 2010-13 data and also found the Work Capability Assessments could be linked to a rise in mental health problems.

This particularly doesn't surprise me.

I'm amazed the WCAs exist in a civilised society, especially the way they're carried out. It's pure human degradation - they treat people on the presumption of guilt.

The people who talk about "scroungers" using this system literally have zero clue what they are talking about. Witness it before you talk about it.

 

[typerkid]

Think we need to protest against Liverpool and Knowsley Labour controlled councils.
We will never catch up to rest of uk while these socialist scum waste money hand over fist.
So depressing when you drive in to Merseyside from say,Southport,Cheshire etc.
Get the Tories in,the we can become part of the northern powerhouse.
Labour have done so much harm these past 50 odd years,we need to move on,and join the rest of uk.

 

[chewee]

Think we need to protest against Liverpool and Knowsley Labour controlled councils.
We will never catch up to rest of uk while these socialist scum waste money hand over fist.
So depressing when you drive in to Merseyside from say,Southport,Cheshire etc.
Get the Tories in,the we can become part of the northern powerhouse.
Labour have done so much harm these past 50 odd years,we need to move on,and join the rest of uk.

Surely you are trolling?

Are you not aware of the savage cuts to local government funding since 2010 Liverpool City Council has faced?! Look at the destruction the Thatcher years had on this city coupled with the grim scaling back of vital services since 2010, this city flourishes far more under Labour Governments.

 

[orchard]

Think we need to protest against Liverpool and Knowsley Labour controlled councils.
We will never catch up to rest of uk while these socialist scum waste money hand over fist.
So depressing when you drive in to Merseyside from say,Southport,Cheshire etc.
Get the Tories in,the we can become part of the northern powerhouse.
Labour have done so much harm these past 50 odd years,we need to move on,and join the rest of uk.

-do you mean southern England ?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

We need Trump here in case any protestors decide to throw tomatoes.

 

[daylightrobber]

Think we need to protest against Liverpool and Knowsley Labour controlled councils.
We will never catch up to rest of uk while these socialist scum waste money hand over fist.
So depressing when you drive in to Merseyside from say,Southport,Cheshire etc.
Get the Tories in,the we can become part of the northern powerhouse.
Labour have done so much harm these past 50 odd years,we need to move on,and join the rest of uk.

Ahem!