You may (finally) have seen on the news that protests are taking place in Wall Street (for the last month), London, Birmingham (I think) and Nottingham as well as many other cities around the world.
What do you know about these, what do you feel about them?
My son has been following them since they began last month and so I have heard a fair bit about the motivations and people inviolved. He is attending the Occupy Nottingham protest this weekend. Although, given the wethar forecast I don't envy him in a tent in the centre of Nottingham.
Is it just the youngsters realising they are being screwed? The same realsiation that hit us in the '80s and our parents in the '60's? Is it a response to the unique situation the current banking system (ie the bankers themselves helped by multiple govrnments' relaxing the banking regulations in search of more profits) has dragged us into?
do none of these peeple actualy have jobs to go to?
why is it always it seams the same bunch of peeple ether outside st pauls or to be found at dale farm?
i would love top know how many peeple there have no jobs yet are happy not to work but ponce off the very state they despise?
st pauls to shut there doors for the first time since the second world war? for what?
still it is probably a nice little jolly up for the peeple going on there autumn holidays camping i suppose. and getting paid for it to by HM government in way of benefits.
how some peeple have got the nerve i do not know. talk about double standards.
for the record i beleeve the RBS should have been alowed to collapse like that bank would allowed one of its customers to had one of there customers of been as bad with there money and as irresponsible as the very bank who lent it to them has.
make there own customers bankrupt yet get away with it scott free if you are a bank.
let them go under i would have done and saved the money and started up a bank run by the peeple for the peeple.
I have to be honest and say I do not fully know the motivation for these protest's.
I do however fully support the right for peaceful protest 100%
The only thing these people have accomplished is to close St Pauls for the first time since the war and stopping pilgrims going in to pray.
There are laws when camping such as tents and caravans must be a certain distance apart for fire safety and be able to get a fire/rescue vehicle between rows, sorry, cant be bothered to look up what the law says. I presume these must apply outside of campsites?
Unfortunately, I don't trust the source, but if this is true: Then I see no reason why the site isn't cleaned force if necessary.
Their actions has forced the authorities of St. Paul's to decide to close their doors. The protesters are campaigning against the bankers and capitalism (I think, as they don't seem to have a strong message) so why don't they set up their camp at Canary Wharf? Could it be because Canary Wharf is private property, and have security there?
I think if they actually targeted the real villains in this (i.e. the politicians that allowed taxpayers money to support the banks) then the 'protesters' would have more support.
Well, now I've heard it all.
One of the great unwashed was asked by SkyNews to comment on the fact that very few of the tents are occupied at night. This bright spark stroked his beard slowly and commented that as many of them would be standing outside their tents at night chatting to each other, the thermal imaging camera wouldn't be able to 'see' them.
Obviously never seen 'Police, Camera, Action' tracking scroats doing a runner after crashing their stolen car.
As I have stated earlier in this thread, I do fully support peaceful protest 100%. I have protested my self on several occasions. Although, I could only afford to go to London and the other venues, do the protest march and home again ready for work on Monday.
I feel now that perhaps this protest may have gone on long enough, as an anti capitalist protest they seam happy to be affecting the income of this cathedral, the cathedral is not a bank or the Government, and it is an old building that requires income for its upkeep.
It is one thing to stop people going about there daily lawful business for a few hours, but when this runs into days I feel this could be unfair.
If they wish to protest about the banks/government then why not take the camp onto the banks, I feel that what they are currently doing will quite quickly alienate them and their cause. Already the talk is not about capitalism but more about the harm they are doing.
let them go and stick there tents ( daylight hours only of course ) outside the bank of England. I think it is in threadneedle street i beleeve.
anti capitalists my arse. i bet they would all take the money given half a chance. :twisted:
mr notts. maybe i shall put you in touch with a friend of a friend who just loves working on health and safety compensation claims..
he says that he makes a mint on peeple who fall over things that have been left laying around. be it on a wet floor in sainsburys ( even though there is a wet floor sign up ) which apparently only alerts a person to a wet floor. slip on that floor and break your arm and you have a right to claim for compensation from the supermarket..
as the logo used to say " where there is blame, there is always a claim ".
we all know that there have been huge payouts for almost everything.
claims are happening every day of the week in our courts and you only have to look at the number of lawyers out there or the telephone calls alerting you to compensation for the accident you had.
you can of course beleeve whatever you like, but the lawyers out there are proof that there is a claim and a gain for everything and health and safety issues have made the situation worse because of the blame/claim culture now.
if anyone wants to take it a bit further to see which one of us tells it how it is, not how they think it is, then look in the yellow pages under claims lawyers. i think you will find there are pages of them. take a little look. :thumbup:
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