Reply to: Million mask march

[LondonManc]

It is the way I do it

Ah, you use ox-tongue dear boy? Why didn't you say? My hearty contrafibularities.

[vetran]

That's not a punishment. Flay the workshy wench!

It is the way I do it

[LondonManc]

was tongue in cheek.

That's not a punishment. Flay the workshy wench!

[vetran]

But she clearly wasn't available for work. Punish her.

was tongue in cheek.

[vetran]

They do free coach trips for demonstrations like this.

"They" being organisations like student unions, unions and even smaller organisations depending on what the demonstration is for. The only thing is you have to get up early which is why I never demonstrated as a student.

I suspected as much.

[LondonManc]

They do free coach trips for demonstrations like this.

"They" being organisations like student unions, unions and even smaller organisations depending on what the demonstration is for. The only thing is you have to get up early which is why I never demonstrated as a student.

But she clearly wasn't available for work. Punish her.

[SueEllen]

Pretty restrained if it had been the French Police there would have been busted heads.

So was Angela available for work? How much does a train ticket from Wales cost? Or did she drive?

They do free coach trips for demonstrations like this.

"They" being organisations like student unions, unions and even smaller organisations depending on what the demonstration is for. The only thing is you have to get up early which is why I never demonstrated as a student.

[d000hg]

It's bizarre.

These people just seem to regurgitate lines from the past without understanding what they are saying. As usual they target the Tories because that's what they have been brought up on.

But unemployment has been falling.
Tax on the lowest incomes has been cut drastically (by Tories)
A living wage will be introduced (by Tories)
Every member of the Government was elected, including Theresa May. And the great thing about this country is they can be unelected too. The Tories were thrown out en masse in 97. New Liebour were thrown out en masse in 2010.

The bigger danger is from the Liberal elitists like Bliar and Branson as they slowly develop a ruling party and turn us into China.

Unemployment figures are always manipulated by both sides. What constitutes employment and do they release figures for full-time employment (say 30+ hours per week) and how do those look?

People on the lowest incomes were already not paying tax, those taken outside tax under the Tories are the next group up. Splitting hairs for accuracy here, but what IS important is how the actual "take-home" for those on lower/lowest incomes has changed due to changes to tax credits and other benefits. You see claims that in real terms the poorest are loosing out but I've no idea if that is accurate. Clearly though, these are the ones to who even a small change makes a big difference.
And then the whole issue of benefits sanctions and an "unsympathetic state" we keep hearing about. Isolated cases WILL ALWAYS slip through the cracks and the fact these are real lives doesn't change that - e.g. a cancer sufferer being taken off benefits because they had a chemo session when they were supposed to be at the dole office and it taking months to get it fixed, we all see these stories in the Guardian or on FB if we have socially aware friends who share all these things ad nauseum.
My view is much of these issues are down to local government workers - an example of public sector workers doing bad jobs - rather than facsist Tory policies. But it still needs addressing.

The living wage is just a rebrand. You cannot say "we introduced a Living Wage", they just increased the NMW. Which is good IMO but it's not a LW.

[vetran]

Oxford University student Emma Janson, 18, came into the restaurant to get away from the mob with two friends.

She said: "We don't know how we're going to get out of here.

"We only came in here to get away from them and there was no where else to go.


A masked protester holds up a flare CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
"It's really uncomfortable to watch them throwing bottles and fireworks from outside the window.

"Hopefully by the time we leave they will be gone.

"It's pretty scary."

The police beamed a message in green letters onto a building in Parliament Square, which read: "Please observe Public Order Act restrictions. Failure to comply may result in arrest and prosecution. Officers may require you to remove facial covering. Failure to comply is an offence."

It came after members of the crowd ignited fireworks and flares in front of Westminster Abbey.

Angela Windsor, an unemployed 40-year-old, said she travelled from Wales to take part in the event.

"Nobody is protecting people - nobody cares," she said.

"I think everyone here cares enough about people to make the effort to come down and try and do something, because the officials aren't doing it."

Pretty restrained if it had been the French Police there would have been busted heads.

So was Angela available for work? How much does a train ticket from Wales cost? Or did she drive?

[BrilloPad]

So, thousands of people turned up to a Million Mask March?

Lefties don't understand orders of magnitude, do they?

Bless 'em!

Maybe each took a thousand masks?

[RetSet]

So, thousands of people turned up to a Million Mask March?

Lefties don't understand orders of magnitude, do they?

Bless 'em!

[vetran]

Not like the 80s when 50 people would protest and everyone would get arrested.

yes but then they threw bricks.

Policing of marches has got better.

Bloody hell they would vote in Jezzy!

[MarillionFan]

More than 50 arrested after thousands of protesters attended Million Mask March*

"People are not happy with the way things are in this country.
"There has been a huge rise in unemployment and homelessness and I want to see Theresa May and her unelected government out.
"Wages have stayed the same and the cost of living had increased.
"People are starting to realise that things aren't right."

No they aren't....

I agree with all of those points from my Ivory Tower.

[GB9]

Not like the 80s when 50 people would protest and everyone would get arrested.

[GB9]

It's bizarre.

These people just seem to regurgitate lines from the past without understanding what they are saying. As usual they target the Tories because that's what they have been brought up on.

But unemployment has been falling.
Tax on the lowest incomes has been cut drastically (by Tories)
A living wage will be introduced (by Tories)
Every member of the Government was elected, including Theresa May. And the great thing about this country is they can be unelected too. The Tories were thrown out en masse in 97. New Liebour were thrown out en masse in 2010.

The bigger danger is from the Liberal elitists like Bliar and Branson as they slowly develop a ruling party and turn us into China.