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| What do we want? Free trade! Now! |
| 2009-03-27 |
| SO HERE we go again, folks. It is now 10 years since the anti-capitalists attacked London, and next week they intend to outdo themselves. The alienated children of the middle classes are planning to subvert the G20 summit. Across the desolate wastes of the leftie internet, their wrathful campfires are already burning, and when April dawns they will surge like the Orcs of Mordor in the general direction of the Bank of England. They will taunt the police. They will paralyse traffic. They will do their utmost to spoil your day; and when Billy Bragg has finished his Commie dirges, it is a safe bet that they will begin the chant of hate. Somewhere in the crowd, a keffiyeh-wearing twerp will drain a mouthful of cider and call to his comrades: "What do we want?" And at that moment, a great silence will fall in the carnival of cretinous crusties. The papier mache horsemen of the Apocalypse will turn their heads inquiringly in his direction. "What do we want?" he will demand again, a shade more hysterically, and by this time the rioters will be looking at their feet and coughing. Er. What do they want? The embarrassing truth is that they haven't a clue. They seem to be cross about the recession, and also about climate change -- even though there is nothing like an economic downturn for reducing emissions. They are apparently enraged that state money is being used to prop up the banks, though they don't mind forcing the taxpayer to cough up millions to police their antics. They say they want to "burn a banker" and "stop the city", and no matter how superficially appealing those ambitions may be, it is hard to see how they can be turned into practical economic policies. |
| Posted by:Classer |
| #2 No one poor has a right to call me out on understanding that the poor are hurt the worst by this stupidity. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-03-27 01:27 |
| #1 It would be nice to think that the world's most famous son of a Kenyan goatherd Is that a sample of the famously understated British humor? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-27 00:56 |