"yet smear anti- capitalist activists as foreign vandals"

where?


There will be people coming to london this week who intend to "get stuck in". Some will be from abroad, some will be (as you may note I said in the first post that you have very selectively responded to) from "out of town".

I don't know about you, but I am not such an arrogant Londoner as to see people from out of town as foreigners.



So I am clearly not talking about foreigners but people who go to events like this with the intention of "getting stuck in".


I know people who have travelled overseas to take part in Demos who have packed their trendy PLO scarf to wrap around their face in anticipation of geting "stuck in when it all kicks off".

I've been on the front line at demos and watched people like that spoil for a fight.

So I know exactly who I'm talking about and I have categorized them according to their methods not their nationality.

My category is specifically as follows - rioters who are non resident in a place where they intend to deliberately cause damage and destruction, and who will not have to live in the mess they have created nor bear the cost of the clean up, that privilege being set aside especially for those on the bottom rungs of the ladder whose lives will as a consequence be a bit harder.

Fly in, bus in, train in ... smash it up ... fly out etc.

Ok - so we're clear on that point now.


And isn't it a lovely irony that the people who clear up after them and fix the damage will most likely be immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa ... most of the street cleaners and builders around my way are anyway.


I know who I'd rather have around.


But why are we talking about foreigners anyway?

Oh I remember - because that was your cue to start complaining about "them" coming over here and taking our jobs - well if any unemployed Brits are willing to help clean up the mess I reckon there'll be plenty of vacancies.

I retract the terms "spics, darkies, yids and micks" and replace them with your term:- "foreigners"

It sounds so much more palatable.