Common as Mook
Not Posh as Fook
- Jul 26, 2004
- 5,634
In all seriousness, is anything planned for Canary Wharf?
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April 1st City riots
- Thread starter Lokki 7
- Start date
Lokki 7
WSU
- Thread starter
- #103
This is what the Police sent us...
Wednesday 1st April
800 Rising Tide are calling for a protest outside the Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Building in Queen Victoria Street.
11am Climate Reclaim the Streets protest starts with the gathering of four groups under the banner, “ Four Horsefolk of the Apocalypse”.
Liverpool Street Station: Green Horse- Climate Chaos
Moorgate Station: Red Horse- War
London Bridge Station: Silver Horse- Job/Savings/ Pension Losses.
Cannon Street Station: Black Horse- Home Repossessions
All four groups are then expected to march for a street party outside the Bank of England at 12 noon. Historically this has inially involved the use of sound systems, samba type bands, dancing and a party atmposphere.
Thursday 2nd April
At 7am Protest Outside Stock Exchange, Paternoster Square. Bristol Dissent Crash the Stock Exchange. An attempt to disrupt/stop trading.
9am. Youth March for Jobs from Camberwell Green to Excel via Bank of England and Parliament. Still developing.
Lunchtime: Stop the War demonstration in Westminster.
G20 Meltdown All Day Excel
The G20 Event at Excel. Traditionally G20 events attract a large number of people. Not all of them will be protesters.This is the first visit to the UK by President Barack Obama as President which may lead to large numbers arriving to attempt to see him.
However there will be a large number of demonstrators from various groups, including anti-capatalists, anti-globalisation and Free Tibet with the possibility of disorder in and around ExCel.
Summary
Intelligence is still being received in the run up the the planned week’s protests. The coming together of various protest groups under one banner is a rare event and history has shown that there is a potential for serious disorder. The responsibility for ensuring that does not take place rests with the Police, The City Community and the Protestors themselves. Please also consider that the threat from terrorism in this country is at severe and that a terrorist attack can happen at any time without notice. Previous expereince has shown that we not only have to be prepared for the risks that we know about.
The threat from International Terrorism remains at “Severe”.
Wednesday 1st April
800 Rising Tide are calling for a protest outside the Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Building in Queen Victoria Street.
11am Climate Reclaim the Streets protest starts with the gathering of four groups under the banner, “ Four Horsefolk of the Apocalypse”.
Liverpool Street Station: Green Horse- Climate Chaos
Moorgate Station: Red Horse- War
London Bridge Station: Silver Horse- Job/Savings/ Pension Losses.
Cannon Street Station: Black Horse- Home Repossessions
All four groups are then expected to march for a street party outside the Bank of England at 12 noon. Historically this has inially involved the use of sound systems, samba type bands, dancing and a party atmposphere.
Thursday 2nd April
At 7am Protest Outside Stock Exchange, Paternoster Square. Bristol Dissent Crash the Stock Exchange. An attempt to disrupt/stop trading.
9am. Youth March for Jobs from Camberwell Green to Excel via Bank of England and Parliament. Still developing.
Lunchtime: Stop the War demonstration in Westminster.
G20 Meltdown All Day Excel
The G20 Event at Excel. Traditionally G20 events attract a large number of people. Not all of them will be protesters.This is the first visit to the UK by President Barack Obama as President which may lead to large numbers arriving to attempt to see him.
However there will be a large number of demonstrators from various groups, including anti-capatalists, anti-globalisation and Free Tibet with the possibility of disorder in and around ExCel.
Summary
Intelligence is still being received in the run up the the planned week’s protests. The coming together of various protest groups under one banner is a rare event and history has shown that there is a potential for serious disorder. The responsibility for ensuring that does not take place rests with the Police, The City Community and the Protestors themselves. Please also consider that the threat from terrorism in this country is at severe and that a terrorist attack can happen at any time without notice. Previous expereince has shown that we not only have to be prepared for the risks that we know about.
The threat from International Terrorism remains at “Severe”.
They should take our shitty English weather and exchange it for some grade A Med sunshine. That would get flush out and kill the final bit of support for the bankers. I'd also swop that bollocks winter drizzle shit for some decent powder snow as well.
semtex - just thought I'd mention it so we can have NSC flash up on the M15 radar.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
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Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
These fellas get my vote.
"What are the chances eh? Imagine if we were invited to a fancy dress party and we all turned up as Darth Vader..."
"No, seriously lads. Some of us are going to have to go home and change."
Those boots can be bought cheaply in any Camden goth shop. Not sure about the rest of the gear though.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Personally Im most PUT OUT. Means trains may be delayed getting home 2morow.
So for me I would wade into the crusties.
So for me I would wade into the crusties.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,851
i wonder if they realise there isnt actually a trading floor anymore? i doubt you'd need anyone in the building to run the exchange, wouldn't be surprised if the system were all elsewhere either.
coventrygull
the right one
Think BBC News 24 is going to be very entertaining tomorrow
Arthur
Well-known member
Think BBC News 24 is going to be very entertaining tomorrow
Indeed, also twitter will be very interesting to follow tomorrow.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 71,960
Think BBC News 24 is going to be very entertaining tomorrow
Always seems to me to be painfully slow with the news compared to Sky News.
patchamalbion
Well-known member
im hoping they have a live text service of the days events...
14:02 The first Starbucks has just been attacked.
its going to be an interesting day
14:02 The first Starbucks has just been attacked.
its going to be an interesting day
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 71,960
Reckon the trains will all screw up. No particular reason, just because they can.
" Bristol Dissent Crash the Stock Exchange."
...surely they just need to let some bankers into work to do their job to achieve this?
...surely they just need to let some bankers into work to do their job to achieve this?
Lokki 7
WSU
- Thread starter
- #117
Some motivational reading for tomorrow.
Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders - Times Online
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.”
Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. “The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims,” a spokesman said.
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 grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.” When a trader left the building shortly before 2pm, using a security swipe card, a protester dropped some coins on the floor and, as he bent down to pick them up, put his boot in the door to keep it open.
Two minutes later, three Greenpeace vans pulled up and another 30 protesters leapt out and were let in by the others.
They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts “open outcry” trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.
But 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.
Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders - Times Online
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.”
Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. “The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims,” a spokesman said.
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 grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.” When a trader left the building shortly before 2pm, using a security swipe card, a protester dropped some coins on the floor and, as he bent down to pick them up, put his boot in the door to keep it open.
Two minutes later, three Greenpeace vans pulled up and another 30 protesters leapt out and were let in by the others.
They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts “open outcry” trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.
But 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.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I'm filled with a warm glow reading that very biased report. Greenpeace were the aggressors, they were the ones trespassing and they were the ones that caused the problems yet that reads as if they were the ones who were wronged.
Can see similar vigilante action tomorrow if the trustafarians try it on
Can see similar vigilante action tomorrow if the trustafarians try it on
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 71,960
Yup, that's about the crux of the matter. The protestors have this simplistic stereotypical view of City Boys as being some kind of meek and docile toffs. Big mistake. In actual fact, hell hath no fury like a trader who thinks he's being disrupted from making money (which he'll always use in his defence, tho he's equally as likely to be losing money). The London Stock Exchange may well still be filled with genteel old skool City types, but the likes of LIFFE are stuffed full of Chelsea, West Ham & Millwall hard lads who will be just GAGGING to be let loose on the protestors. Might as well set a collective noun of pitbulls in amongst them.
It's not going to be pretty...
Storer68
New member
only becasue they like to check the truth and the facts before going on the air.
strange philosophy that