Bonzo. In case you've forgotten, the hideous labour government's disasters were part of a world wide recession brought on by greedy bankers. Blame them, not individual governments, or individual protesters.

Richie. I hold no brief for violent demonstrators and I will be peacefully protesting against the cuts on Saturday. But how many people were in that crowd of 20,000? That's the estimate I heard on the news, 20,000. And how many of them caused any trouble. A couple of dozen perhaps? Or maybe 50 or 60. Who knows, it might have been all of 100. well, if it was, 100/20000 works out at just 0.05%. A considerably lower proportion of trouble makers than you'd get in any city centre on a Saturday night, methinks, or on a Bullingdon club shindig.

Those are highly speculative figures I'll agree. But perhaps you can explain how you know any of them were 'drug fuelled'. And have they started fitting tvs with olfactory devices since I last bought one? If not, how were you able to deduce that any of them were unwashed?

BTW., unwashed is an epithet I've had slung at me when demonstrating aginst the BNP. I can tell you now, nothing could be further from the truth.