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How to make a banker wince
Warnings aplenty for everyone who works in the Square Mile or Canary Wharf and who runs the risk of looking like a banker. Dress down, or work from home, they're all being told. Yes, it's the smelly-socked anti-globalisation brigade back in town, about to mark the G20 Summit by launching carnage on the streets of the capital.
What a tragic waste: millions of pounds of property will be damaged, several policemen will get hurt and the protesters will look like a bunch of total d***heads. Their attempts to overthrow 'the system' will prove to be pathetically misguided and, if anything, public sympathy for the banking industry just might increase by a smidgeon.
If the demonstrators really want to hurt the bankers, all they need do is gather outside the glimmering offices - and laugh themselves silly.
I presume you're not referring to such dangerous forces as Oxfam, Save the Children, at least one Church of England Bishop and Trade Unions who are planning to be part of a perfectly peaceful, legal march calling on G20 leaders to "put people first" tomorrow?
Mind you they might get militant, after all the Salvation Army is attending...
Posted by :Rachel | March 27, 2009 4:04 PM
Quite right, I'm not referring to such organisations at all. I AM referring to the idiots who time after time derail perfectly legitimate and peaceful protest with pathetic, pointless violence and destruction, the ones who fail to realise that their ridiculous, brainless and intimidating tactics actually undermine their own cause. We've all seen enough rioting on the streets of Britain to know exactly what sort of fools I'm referring to.
Posted by :Andy Sawers | March 27, 2009 4:18 PM