They may as well take down those tents today.

some folks are doing it.

A couple of weeks ago and saw the Wall Street one at first hand. It was pretty good humoured to be fair and the police adopted a less antagonistic response than ours would have done. As you say the cold weather is coming so doubt they will be marching in December or January.

thumbs up from me. Someone needs to demonstrate that we aren't all in it together

Apparently, in the future, there won't be any need for motions in the Commons, second readings of Bills, sittings of The Uppah Chamber, and all of that malarkey, because members of the Big Society will just demonstrate and hang out in tents somewhere inconvenient for a few months, the law will be changed according to their demands, and we'll all get on together really well. Unless there's a pressing need to bump up the old coffers with a bit of merchant banking for a week or two, chaps will be free to go huntin', shootin' and fishin' instead. What larks!

...in a nutshell.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/15/occupywallst-sign-of-the-day-its-wrong....

Probably the wordiest placard I've ever seen, but admirably direct.

but it's worth going to the Daily Mail site to read their take on it and the comments sent in, real purple ink stuff.

They're all hypocrites because they spotted a coke bottle next to their tent!
And some of the comments are priceless, such as "Why don't they go off and live in North Korea" and "instead of hanging around here and collecting benefits why don't they get a job?" forgetting that's the reason they're there.

I'd get off my comfortable middle-class arse and join them. Consequently, I don't think about it. I actively choose not to think about it. I would drive myself insane with fury if I did.

something called The Peace Garden in Manchester which is a strip of land between the Town Hall and the tram lines which sinks down a bit and has a few trees around it. Something rather dank and unappealing about the place and you rarely see anyone sitting there apart from the odd sleeping tramp.

It is now full of tents and flags plastered with slogans and the whiff of unwashed undergraduates and Tofu roasting on a Calor gas heater. I don't believe the authorities have any great urgency to move them on, they're not hurting anyone and they're keeping the place tidy from what I can see.

They're in the wrong place though. The Town Hall is closed for a couple of years for refurbishment, and even if it wasn't would be full of Social Workers and Housing Officers who can hardly be blamed for Capitalism's ills. They should occupy the grounds in front of Royal Bank of Scotland's offensively ostentatious new offices in Spinningfields perhaps?