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Thread #136632   Message #3123546
Posted By: GUEST
28-Mar-11 - 03:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mad march in London
Subject: RE: BS: Mad march in London
"Unlike everybody else (I think) in this discussion, I saw almost the entire march from a very good vantage point. I do not recall seeing anything more than a tiny number of anarchists taking part in the march. Yes, there were a lot more occupying Trafalgar Square, and I've no doubt they were the ones who caused the trouble after the rest of us had gone home. But they were not a part of what even the police and the home secretary agreed was a well organised, peaceful and well behaved march."

We marched down Picadilly at approximately 1:30pm. We went past all the shops later targeted, including Fortnums. The march remained peaceful and good natured.

The people we saw later in the action outside Fortnums were Black Bloc anarchists. They emerged from the crowd with soundsystems on bikes. The mood palpably changed. That does NOT mean that the UK Uncut occupiers inside were Black Bloc.

Of the hundreds of thousands of people we saw, the militant anarchists were around 100 people, at a guess. They were entirely separate from the peaceful protest, and had their own agenda.