Hundreds of protesters broke away from a huge anti-austerity demonstration in London on Saturday, and attempted to storm various multi-national companies on Oxford Street, in the West End central shopping district.
The breakaway protest finished at Trafalgar Square around 1600GMT, after two hours of running skirmishes with the police.
Saturday’s march was against the latest austerity cuts proposed by the UK government. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Central London in support of the protest.
flash says:
…get ready.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCCX68mRRLg
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22nd October 2012 at 9:27 am
Goldorack says:
Watch dat…
http://rt.com/news/anti-merkel-greece-army-113/?source=mm679
A tad more scary than teenage riots in UK.
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22nd October 2012 at 10:16 am
Stucky says:
They’re probably rioting because both remaining dentists in England are about to quit.
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22nd October 2012 at 10:31 am
Eddie says:
I didn’t make it to Zucotti park, but I was in London last fall, and Iwitnessed the encampment at St. Paul’s, across the street from the Parliament building. I even took lot of photos, which are still around somewhere on a camera card I never downoaded.
The encampment there resembled Occupy in a lot of ways with the tents and the peaceful crowd…but I really remember most of the signs as being anti-war rather than anti-bank. It looked like a demonstration that was having some impact. Of course, it’s a spot where thousands of tourists from all over the world converge…just across the street from Westminster Abbey.
They managed to clear that one, with a lawsuit won by the city of London. There one day, gone the next. Eerily similar to what happened nationwide to the Occupy Movement in the States.
Maybe Britain is more of a powderkeg than America. I don’t know. I’m watching Britain…and Greece. And Spain.
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22nd October 2012 at 10:57 am
Thunderbird says:
That is what happens when government wants to run everything. What are people to do? Government promises and controls too much.
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22nd October 2012 at 12:28 pm
Outtahere says:
Watch Europe indeed because it’s a blueprint for what is going to happen here when the unions,
public employees and Sheeple wake up to the fact that they aren’t going to be getting the retirement
income that they were so generously and erroneously promised. The big difference here is that the
general populace is armed, well armed. Should be interesting to say the least.
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22nd October 2012 at 1:08 pm
a cruel accountant says:
UK has not cut anything. Government spending just keeps increasing.
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22nd October 2012 at 11:09 pm
Kepi says:
It’s going to be a big riot across the western world here… The real question is will the nations rise from their own ashes more democratic than before, or will they admit that electing public figureheads is just kinda a farce and prop up dictators and monarchs.
And before you go all “Haha, Europe still has royalty” remember the US is the only presidential system representative democracy that hasn’t descended into puppet dictatorship.
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22nd October 2012 at 11:20 pm