G20 disruption planned for London. Enjoy.
The global economy is tanking, people are hurting and many are blaming capitalism. Against this backdrop, I received an email warning from Donald Twain, a member of the rivercityvibe faithful who lives in Miami, imploring me to warn my readers to avoid London, England at the end of this month. It appears that the great unwashed are mobilizing on an unprecedented scale to disrupt the upcoming meeting of G20 Finance Ministers.
Difficult to see how this will help, but. hey, it’s shaping up to be quite a spectacle! Civil disobedience is always fun. Especially when viewed from the baseline. Click on this picture of some cardboard Horsemen of the Apocalypse to be taken to the G20 Meltdown site:
Someone's a craft hobbyist (or Kindergarten teacher)
So, there I was, in a $600 silk shirt, $300 sunglasses, $600 Gucci loafers, cruising in a Rolls Royce Phantom, through Central London on the day of the May Day protests. You might remember the sit-in on parliament square where they put a turf mohawk on Churchill’s statue? Anyway, I was oblivious to the events of the day – I never read the news, watch TV, or listen to the radio when I’m abroad. This resulted in something of a Louis XIV moment when I found myself face to face with a verminous lynch-mob of dog-on-a-rope types looking for the nearest aristocrat to guillotine. I rapidly engaged reverse and J turned the battleship. Naturally I took out a couple of hippies with the car door on the way past – to calm my nerves…..
He adds,
It is going to kick off in London, next week. You and I are better off in Florida. A friend emailed to say he’d seen a asshole in a convertible 911 turbo this morning heading into the city and had to resist the urge to spark up and hurl one of the collection of Molotov cocktails he’d been saving for the occasion………
I look forward to watching the festivities unfold on TV…….
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Tom
25 Mar 09 at 12:30 pm
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Hah.
We were there in ’98 for the last bit of Hooliganism, complete with walking by these maggot farmers. They were busy trashing the City, by bravely knocking out windows near Bank Street Station.We ducked into the Little Ship Club and had a few, until the nancy boys got worn out and went back to Earls COurt.
25 Mar 09 at 1:05 pm
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I work right next to the Bank of England and will be watching the riots with keen interest.
I used to attend the May Day riots annually – I got a great photo of this student who had had his nose broken by a riot shield. He tried to look brave while I took his photo (I told him it was evidence of police brutality) but was almost crying. I was desperately trying not to laugh…
Shortly afterwards there was a mounted police charge – now THAT was not so funny and I made my excuses and left.
I’ll keep you posted on next week.
Jonno
26 Mar 09 at 7:53 am
I know Phil Twain, Donald’s brother, who was riding shotgun at the time of the RR Phantom J turn. Apparently it was a close run thing, for your readers that don’t know the streets north of Oxford Circus between Mayfair and Marylebone, they are predominantly narrow and bendy, well bollarded and full of pedestrians, except for on May Day, when it was deserted except for the mob of loons with wild staring eyes, dreads, greenpeace t-shirts and clubs. Don, got them backed up and facing the opposite direction in a fairly slick series of Austin powersesque half turns, apparently it was like a scene out of 28 weeks later. Only more comic and to the sound of the Bucket by kings of leon blaring out off the disgustingly loud speaker system.