Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
No I wasn't there, but I'm taking the right wing media's word for things (the slightly-right-of-Tebbit Argus' live blog) and I'm a little confused as to how 50 protestors and 70 police officers focused on a specific location on Western Road caused such a big disturbance to your day. Unless of course you're the sort of rubber-necking cretin who had to have a better look (NB I'm not saying you are) and dragged your poor kids in towards the fray rather than immediately went elsewhere. Either way, the fact you ended up having to do your shopping in the North Laine (heads up, there's no 's', only the stoopid DFL tourists add one) rather than Western Road is in itself a victory for the protest. The former being full of small independent stores run by largely local and largely ethical individuals who could do with your money in these financially straightened times; the latter being full of sweatshop-supplied billionaire-owned tax-avoiding multinationals whose bosses deserve nothing more than a good shoeing imho. I'm glad the protestors forced you to go where the decent (in every sense of the word) shops are.
I confused I thought students were protesting against fees or is it they are so bored rather than study they jump on any old bandwagon