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London streets in flames again as 25,000 go on rampage in new student fees riot.

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  • #32
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Little Acorn wrote: »
    Just saw on Sky News that fella who threw the fire extinguisher in the first riot got arrested. Didn't hear what fine/sentence if any he got though.

    He's due to be sentenced in the near future .


  • #33
    Carlos_Ray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Carlos_Ray


    tman wrote: »
    What the **** are the retards burning a bus shelter for?!

    I was thinking that myself. Hardly the most flammable material around. Glass and metal. These are college students??


  • #34
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Mister men wrote: »
    Stay calm and wait for Saturday.

    March will deliberately avoid the Dail and Anglo Irish Bank headquarter so the authorities must be expecting something. :mad:.


  • #35
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    brummytom wrote: »
    Yes.


    Yes they fucking are.



    I was talking to a girl earlier today who's down there protesting. It's hardly a 'rampage' for Christ's sake, it was a much smaller protest than the last one with much less violence - notice how it hasn't been reported too much on the BBC, just the Daily Mail spewing their usual pro-Tory anti-everyone else rubbish

    Is it not a case the David Cameron has little choice considering the way the Labour govt have left public finances?


  • #36
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Is it not a case the David Cameron has little choice considering the way the Labour govt have left public finances?
    Can you really blame an individual government for a worldwide financial crisis?


    The Tories cut the public sector, it's just what they do.

    Cunts


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  • #37
    Carlos_Ray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Carlos_Ray


    I actually find the twats "trying to stop" the crowd touching the police van really fcuking annoying. They're just attention seeking arseholes hoping to get caught on camera. The crowd should have chucked them in the back of the van and took them for a spin around town.


  • #38
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    brummytom wrote: »
    Can you really blame an individual government for a worldwide financial crisis?


    The Tories cut the public sector, it's just what they do.

    Cunts

    I know you are pro Labour :p but come on ;)


  • #39
    previous user
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    I'm so ashamed, i'm too lazy to smash something up.


  • #40
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    I know you are pro Labour :p but come on ;)
    Don't confuse anti-Tory with pro-Labour ;) :pac:


    I think, given the time, Brown's government would have made the right decisions to lead us on to the road to recovery. He was/is a very clever bloke. Dave and Nick aren't, they're just rich. As are all their friends...

    Can't say I'd have described myself as a Labour supporter before this election, but yeah.. I'd have to now :pac:


  • #41
    wyndham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭wyndham


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    London streets in flames again as 25,000 go on rampage ......

    Bit of an exaggeration n'est-ce pas?


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  • #42
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    brummytom wrote: »
    Don't confuse anti-Tory with pro-Labour ;) :pac:


    I think, given the time, Brown's government would have made the right decisions to lead us on to the road to recovery. He was/is a very clever bloke. Dave and Nick aren't, they're just rich. As are all their friends...

    Can't say I'd have described myself as a Labour supporter before this election, but yeah.. I'd have to now :pac:

    ah come on now :D:D:D oh dear


  • #43
    Mister men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭Mister men


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    March will deliberately avoid the Dail and Anglo Irish Bank headquarter so the authorities must be expecting something. :mad:.
    The official march yes.


  • #44
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Mister men wrote: »
    The official march yes.
    There will be a large force of Gardai preventing them from heading back down towards College Green / Kildare St. This is where the fun will start. :p


  • #45
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    ah come on now :D:D:D oh dear
    I don't get it, are you denying that they're rich or what?


  • #46
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    evercloserunion wrote: »
    I don't get it, are you denying that they're rich or what?

    No don't deny that, but are Gordon Brown etc rich? Has a go at Cameron and praises Brown then has a go at Cameron for being rich, that confused me.


  • #47
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    No don't deny that, but are Gordon Brown etc rich? Has a go at Cameron and praises Brown then has a go at Cameron for being rich, that confused me.
    Gordon Brown wasn't born into wealth like Cameron et al. I don't know the figures, but I doubt his wealth is anywhere near Dave's.

    Brown was a socialist, Cameron couldn't be more capitalist; the Tories look out for their mates in the banks.


  • #48
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    brummytom wrote: »
    Gordon Brown wasn't born into wealth like Cameron et al. I don't know the figures, but I doubt his wealth is anywhere near Dave's.

    Brown was a socialist, Cameron couldn't be more capitalist; the Tories look out for their mates in the banks.

    Sorry Brummy, I'm afraid we are going to have to disagree on this issue :), anyway don't want to drag the thread OT:)


  • #49
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    brummytom wrote: »
    Can you really blame an individual government for a worldwide financial crisis?

    Labour can be blamed for failing to make cuts to cut the deficit.


  • #50
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    Students in Britain have fees slapped on them. They create
    visible and loud protests on the streets. They let their annoyance and frustration be known.

    Meanwhile, in Ireland we are now about to pay the extremely heavy price
    for the gambling a coterie of bankers. No street protests even
    worth talking about.

    How do you feel about this? How will you look your children / grandchildren
    in the eye and tell them you sat back while we lost sovereignty. What will
    you tell them?


  • #51
    godscop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭godscop


    We can tell them we went to the pub and our goverment let us down..


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  • #52
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Tell them I was one of the biggest men on the internet - pouring scorn like it was going outta fashion? /sarcasm.


  • #53
    amy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭amy21


    Will these student marches get anywhere though, we had a big turnout for our own student march, im sure a large percentage of both marches were just seen as hug piss ups. I heard there were huge drink promotions in the uk to get students down


  • #54
    fakearms123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    Protests?? On the street?? Sure is giving out on forums from the comfort of ones home or work not enough... :confused::confused: plus it's quite chilly outside


  • #55
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    It's not a competition to see who can cause the most damage or violence. The whole idea of a peaceful protest is to protest peacefully, something a lot of people can't seem to grasp. Should we be proud of the fact that violence broke out at our own student protests. Certainly not, because it was caused by left wing groups who otherwise just wanted to cause a lot of trouble.

    As for the protests in Britain. All I can say is, did they achieve anything from the violence that ensured?


  • #56
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    jetsonx wrote: »
    Students in Britain have fees slapped on them. They create
    visible and loud protests on the streets. They let their annoyance and frustration be known.

    Meanwhile, in Ireland we are now about to pay the extremely heavy price
    for the gambling a coterie of bankers. No street protests even
    worth talking about.

    How do you feel about this? How will you look your children / grandchildren
    in the eye and tell them you sat back while we lost sovereignty. What will
    you tell them?
    I'll tell them that I used my democratic right to vote responsibly, and never ever voted for FF.

    I'll also tell them that starting fires and flipping over police vans will not make the government give you any money.


  • #57
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    It's worrying that violence in protest seems to be so acceptable on here.

    Why shouldn't students also be affected by the down turn?


  • #58
    Bill2673
    Closed Accounts Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Bill2673


    A couple of hundred thousand people protested in Athens, a couple of people died in the melee. Where did that get them?

    People here are very angry, and I don't need a big protest march down Kildare Street to tell me that. But its also the case that people don't live in cloud cuckoo land; that they do know an austerity plan is absolutely needed, and the sooner the better, and that everyone will be affected by it. No amount of placards and banners are going to change that fact.

    The only thing I can see worth protesting for is political reform, to get rid of the cronyism that pervades our government, and I don't see any of the current political powers delivering that without a serious push.


  • #59
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    OP - what are you doing?


  • #60
    billy the squid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    jetsonx wrote: »
    Students in Britain have fees slapped on them. They create
    visible and loud protests on the streets. They let their annoyance and frustration be known.

    Meanwhile, in Ireland we are now about to pay the extremely heavy price
    for the gambling a coterie of bankers. No street protests even
    worth talking about.

    How do you feel about this? How will you look your children / grandchildren
    in the eye and tell them you sat back while we lost sovereignty. What will
    you tell them?


    The student protest in Dublin was bigger than the one in London yesterday. also there is a national protest on 27th November.

    Do keep ut


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  • #61
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    Speak for yourself.

    I'm like this in my rage: http://imgur.com/1dLLN.jpg

    But instead of a mansion it's a cubicle. and instead of bullets it's a series of píssy posts on boards.


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