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We had a "protest". It didn't really work the way they'd imagined.

At least you couldn't see me on TV. :D

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Yeah, police attacking innocents (again.. seen that before) were just as bad as the idiots starting the trouble. SkyFox covered with bias of course, that Burley woman calling ALL protesters 'Insurgents' etc...

Confused as to what the attack on the Royal Car was about but from some of the coverage that's been given, you'd be forgiven for thinking they'd died in that ala Diana and Dodi, not that they were unharmed.

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The attack on Charles and Camilla was pretty good in my opinion! Nothing too serious, didn't cause any harm while at the same time creating the hysteria and media coverage this cause needs.

Surely the Government, in particular Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dems, are getting the hint?

I just hope and pray that these protests/riots continue for the length of this parliament, for as long as this Government of out-of-touch millionaires administer this ruthless cuts.

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on the student front, the only thing i didn't like was the setting fire to the xmas tree in Trafalgar square.

on the police front, well where to begin, pulling people out of wheelchairs, pulling a woman/girl out of the crowd one police person holding her down & another holding a truncheon across her neck, charging at people on horses, hitting people on the head with batons, etc etc..... police motto "to protect & serve (the public)" yeah right #fail

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on the student front, the only thing i didn't like was the setting fire to the xmas tree in Trafalgar square.

You know, I do love your posts, Alan!! Thanx for making me just spit a mince pie out!!

The lack of police preparation was diabolical.... and, as for whoever protects Charles + Camilla, er... you gotta go!!

Pulling someone out of a wheelchair, and causing another person to wind up with brain damage is just shocking in the extreme..

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Newsnights (Thursday) coverage of the protests and the vote was brilliant! Brilliant discussions, great interviews (although I was cringing at how biased Kirsty Wark was), fantastic reports. I loved the bit where they showed a group of kids skanking to dubstep and bashment in the crowd :D Who the hell brings speakers to play music at a protest rally?! :P Really proved that not all those involved were there to cause trouble and physical harm - and that goes for the police too. But the shot of a police man smashing a boy innocently passing by down on the ground with his truncheon and then hitting him again while he was crouched down in the fetal position pretty much sums up my thoughts of the police.

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Guests on Radio 4 today on about their concerns about graduates leaving the country (which means they won't get their money back for universities), however how many ARE likely to get on a plane and do a runner. Only a certain percentage surely.

another person commenting that the Conservatives have chewed up Nick Clegg and spat him out. I'm inclined to agree.

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But the shot of a police man smashing a boy innocently passing by down on the ground with his truncheon and then hitting him again while he was crouched down in the fetal position pretty much sums up my thoughts of the police.

and the guy being dragged out of a wheelchair, the protester who was played out on newsbeat who said he had got kicked, clubbed etc when he had done nothing wrong, and don't even get me started in the Ian Tomlinson case... all reasons my respect for Police in this country is ZERO, I can totally understand why people take the law into their own hands if this is the kind of idiots that are supposed to enforce it.

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The attack on Charles and Camilla was pretty good in my opinion! Nothing too serious, didn't cause any harm while at the same time creating the hysteria and media coverage this cause needs.

Surely the Government, in particular Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dems, are getting the hint?

I just hope and pray that these protests/riots continue for the length of this parliament, for as long as this Government of out-of-touch millionaires administer this ruthless cuts.

No it was pathetic. A mob of people attacking what is essentially 2 old people, and don't forget one has fought for this country for the freedom these idiots enjoy. I'm not saying it's all students but the small minority are making most working people not like them.

Nice to know my taxes that I pay are going towards cleaning up the mess that these tossers keep making.

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