Anti-gentrification protest - Cereal Killer Cafe

Ellie2008 · 27-09-2015 08:47PM #1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3250896/Cereal-offender-Hipster-hating-mob-attacks-novelty-cafe-anti-gentrification-protests-turn-violent.html

What do people make of this - on the one hand I'm like angry mob = bad, on the other I'm like they have a point. All of my friends who live in London work in the City & always speak about gentrification as a great thing, talking about places that are now "really cool" where they d like to live but I have never, & I doubt they have ever given much thought to the previous residents.

jam_mac_jam · 27-09-2015 08:49PM

I like the fact the mob have actual flaming torches.

Ruu · 27-09-2015 08:50PM

Why did they post a picture of the couple taking a selfie?

:D

strelok · 27-09-2015 08:50PM

left wing activists in being massive ***** shocker

pmasterson95 · 27-09-2015 08:51PM

The Daily Mail. It must be accurate and true

Nervous Wreck · 27-09-2015 08:54PM

Targeting a small business isn't protesting gentrification ; it's being a prick.

wendell borton · 27-09-2015 08:57PM

Now they drive you from the cities,
to make way for all the Yuppies,
Decimate the inner cities, move them out, bring in the wealthy

The King of Moo · 27-09-2015 08:57PM

While any normal human would find it hard to resist the urge to attack a café run by beards selling overpriced children's cereal, it's not like they can be blamed for the general process of gentrification.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 27-09-2015 08:58PM

I've been spending the occasional week back in our office in Dublin over the past few months. I baulked when I heard that the apartment being provided to me was in Ringsend. When I first moved to Dublin 16 years ago, Ringsend wasn't a place you'd even consider when looking for an area to live in.

With some trepidation I headed over to see it. All change. The problem now is an over-proliferation of silly beards and pubs charging €6 for deeply ordinary beer masquerading as craft.

Fadó Fadó.

Dyr · 27-09-2015 08:59PM

They're working class lads? yeah and bono is from ballymun

I suppose thats the thing when you benefit from developing a profile as the symbol of all that is gentrified in london. Sooner or later the mob will want a word

27-09-2015 08:59PM

I'm all for anti hipster anger...but not for anarchists with messages about the Jews taking over, or crime and damaging property. They should be beaten with bamboo rods on the soles of their feet.

Reiver · 27-09-2015 09:01PM

Typical Brits, turn on their own. Think of all the small cereal cafes that were driven out of business by this MNC muscling in on their turf.

Links234 · 27-09-2015 09:01PM

****ing anarchists :mad:

oblivious · 27-09-2015 09:06PM

"The 'F*** Parade' organisers claimed the demonstration was designed to protest against unaffordable housing in east London. "

Maybe there are waiting for a multi national like ford to come along and provide jobs and housing like in Dagenham, hiw did that work out...................

The Randy Riverbeast · 27-09-2015 09:07PM

I suppose by keeping the place a ****hole it will keep prices low. On the downside you you live in a ****hole.

For Forks Sake · 27-09-2015 09:08PM

Class War are still a 'thing', f*cking hell, is it 1984?

Dante · 27-09-2015 09:08PM

Was nearby when it happened, it was basically just a bunch of oddballs who watched a bit too much This Is England doing the usual anti-establishment malarkey. The sooner these freaks are squeezed out of London the better.

Reiver · 27-09-2015 09:10PM

Boring username · 27-09-2015 09:11PM

Our communities are being ripped apart - by Russian oligarchs, Saudi Sheiks, Israeli scumbag property developers, Texan oil-money twats and our own home-grown Eton toffs. Local authorities are coining it in, in a short sighted race for cash by "regenerating" social housing.

Blatant racism and xenophobia-welcome to far left politics, 2015. The same as the far right.

Ulysses Gaze · 27-09-2015 09:13PM

Every time I see these people protest I think of Rik from the Young Ones....

osarusan · 27-09-2015 09:16PM

trendy cafe that sells £4.50 bowls of cereal

£4.50 bowls of cereal

£4.50

Attack!

questionmark? · 27-09-2015 09:20PM

If the far left don't like something they do the only thing they know. Violent protest. It's always the same. No reasoning with those types of people. Only thing missing was Paul Murphy at the head of the march.

J. Marston · 27-09-2015 09:29PM

osarusan wrote: »

Attack!

If they can get idiots to pay £4.50 for a bowl of Coco Pops, they deserve a pat on the back.

Ellie2008 · 27-09-2015 09:33PM

questionmark? wrote: »

If the far left don't like something they do the only thing they know. Violent protest. It's always the same. No reasoning with those types of people. Only thing missing was Paul Murphy at the head of the march.

Tbh I barely know who Paul Murphy is & have never heard him speak but he does appear to inspire some level of hatred on here!

speedboatchase · 27-09-2015 09:39PM

Bambi wrote: »

They're working class lads? yeah and bono is from ballymun

I suppose thats the thing when you benefit from developing a profile as the symbol of all that is gentrified in london. Sooner or later the mob will want a word

The mob can **** off.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-09-2015 09:42PM

pmasterson95 wrote: »

The Daily Mail. It must be accurate and true

The pictures speak for themselves

Ellie2008 · 27-09-2015 09:43PM

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

I like the fact the mob have actual flaming torches.

I actually thought that was good too! Very reminiscent of witch hunts!

starling · 27-09-2015 09:43PM

A few quotes from that article would have saved me having to go to the DM's website, I resent giving them clicks

Ellie2008 · 27-09-2015 09:45PM

starling wrote: »

A few quotes from that article would have saved me having to go to the DM's website, I resent giving them clicks

Sorry on my phone!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-09-2015 09:59PM

starling wrote: »

A few quotes from that article would have saved me having to go to the DM's website, I resent giving them clicks

Makes no difference, mail online receives over ten million views per day.

The Randy Riverbeast · 27-09-2015 10:01PM

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-34373485

Heres a link to a website that isnt dailymail or joe.ie.

Anti-gentrification protest - Cereal Killer Cafe

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