G20 Protests

Just seen on the BBC that protestors have smashed windows & stormed the RBS building. Don't that realise that RBS is now state owned? Mind you - I doubt that there are actually any tax payers there! ;o)

Tip of the day: Wearing a crucifix round your neck will ward off vampires. Soap on a rope will ward off G20 protesters.

Hahaha, more public money now needed to replace the windows. Some protesters, depite generally having the right idea, are pitifully short-sighted in the way they go about things.

f*****g a******s !!

the whole world and his wife knew this would happen. morons.

'Fred's not here, man!'

[Viney]

Its just down the road form where i work!

The BBC have reported that 23 people have been arrested so far.

Compare that with the 488 people arrested at last years Notting Hill Carnival.

Originally Posted by wyrdness

The BBC have reported that 23 people have been arrested so far.

Compare that with the 488 people arrested at last years Notting Hill Carnival.

hardly comparable !!! how many attended the carnival? 1/4 million?

and for minor offences i expect.

The British press are the worst offenders.

They're only showing the vandalism and scummy krusties. That footage of the folk smashing the windows of RBS - there were only a handful of protesters and ten times as many people taking pictures. It makes me sick. The huge majority of the people there are law-abiding citizens trying to make some very valid points. And they get no coverage whatsoever.

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be from the UK.

Originally Posted by dirtsk8

The British press are the worst offenders.

They're only showing the vandalism and scummy krusties. That footage of the folk smashing the windows of RBS - there were only a handful of protesters and ten times as many people taking pictures. It makes me sick. The huge majority of the people there are law-abiding citizens trying to make some very valid points. And they get no coverage whatsoever.

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be from the UK.

of course they get coverage, but also the trouble makers get more coverage. its how news works, go to any country in the world and it would be the same, being british has frick all to do with it...

[anna]

The press and everyone else knew certain places, if there were going to be vandalism, was going to happen there. Mainly focused on the banks. Hence why all the press have been loitering outside the offices all day, waiting for such a thing to happen. Many of them will have been instructed to find tomorrows headline photo.