rivaldo1 Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 London protests.... why so lack of media coverage ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) London protests.... why so lack of media coverage ? What apart from this lot.... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/anti-tory-protests-live-updates-5670515 http://news.sky.com/story/1480956/scuffles-at-london-anti-austerity-protest http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/09/impromptu-anti-austerity-protest-turns-london-into-a-war-zone-5189826/ http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/09/anti-austerity-protesters-take-to-uk-streets-after-tory-election-victory http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11595097/Police-officer-injured-as-anti-Tory-protesters-gather-outside-Downing-Street-and-Whitehall.html http://www.itv.com/news/2015-05-09/scuffles-between-police-and-protesters-and-anti-tory-demonstration-at-downing-street/ http://rt.com/uk/257201-uk-protest-tory-cameron/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32678518 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-10/riots-erupt-in-london-against-re-election-of-david-cameron/6458098 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/05/09/downing-street-anti-austerity-protest_n_7249008.html http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/anti-austerity-protesters-march-on-downing-street.125593462?utm_source=www.heraldscotland.com&utm_medium=RSS%20Feed&utm_campaign=Scottish%20News http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11595097/Police-officer-injured-as-anti-Tory-protesters-gather-outside-Downing-Street-and-Whitehall.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074752/Voice-angry-angel-Charlotte-Church-protests-against-Conservative-party-s-general-election-triumph-says-ve-given-reins-bogey-men.html Hardly anything eh? They all need to grow up. Democracy has taken place. 11+ million people voted for the conservatives. That's 2 million more than labour and over 8 million more than Liberals. Even adding all the minority parties put together it still falls to around 3 million votes less than the Tories. There is all this screaming about vote fixing and PR. But what rent a mob seem to forget is we had a chance to change it quite recently. The public said NO. Even if we did have a so called PR Tories would still be the lead party based on the sample conversion figures and so would still take a lead in things. Its pure sore losers. They are protesting about things that "might" happen. Protesting about things that have not even been formally pledged. Protesting about things that have been stirred up by the media. Protesting for the sake of protesting. Jesus Christ there are far more important things happening right now. Austerity is not the end of the world and those who scream the word "Poverty" in a country with a welfare state as generous as ours need to be dragged to see what REAL POVERTY looks like. As to the NHS, quite frankly some of it needs to be sold off. Whilst essential services should remain just that, funded by taxes and free at source, why is nobody actually admitting there are far too many administrative departments, quangos, sub departments, joint partnerships, special projects, community services, cosmetic treatments, non practicing consultants, auditors, assessors, supply chains, maintenance, transportation, public relations, media, legal, compliance and even hospitality divisions all leaching millions from the health budget and all with their own layers and layers of management topped off with a handful of well paid Chiefs which personally I don't think would or should be classed as taxpayer funded necessities. I think, like many civil service dinosaurs there is quite a lot of it which could quite well be sold off to private sector. I am sick of the NHS being treated as this perfect and untouchable diamond that cant do a thing wrong and has an entitlement to a bottomless pit of funding. Its all horse crap. Edited May 9, 2015 by ECCOnoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivaldo1 Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 Its not been on the News has it ..A wonder why Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WageSlave Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Looks like the same usual suspects causing trouble because they didn't get the election result they wanted. I'd have given them headline coverage showing them spraying war memorials with graffiti. And people say Torys are scum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) Its not been on the News has it ..A wonder why I don't know. Im not a news editor. Sky news have reported it and its currently in the C block on on BBC News. What's the editorial priority you seem to be demanding? Its the same May protests that we get every year. We had them in the G20 summit. We had them during summer 2013. Round and round it goes. Maybe they feel that the anniversary of VE day is a bit more newsworthy than a load of cry-babies protesting about austerity (again!). Edited May 10, 2015 by ECCOnoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penistone999 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Its about time water cannons were used on these vile lefty militants to clear them off the streets , with the added bonus of it will also give them a wesh. Im hoping those arrested will receive long prison sentences. In a week when VE Day was commemorated ,and the brave soldiers who fought for us remembered these animals should be ashamed of themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 A large part of me wishes labour had won just to see how the unions and left in general would have coped with following through the cuts labour would have made. Would they make an effort? Put the placards down and try to make cuts workable? It's preprogrammed into too many people in the public sector to automatically kick back against any tory policy and not try make things work better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_W Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 The protesters in the pictures I have seen appear to be the usual spoilt kids of middle class socialists, they are basically a bunch of clueless student toss pots, mingling with some brainwashed militant lefties ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_bloke Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 The protesters in the pictures I have seen appear to be the usual spoilt kids of middle class socialists, they are basically a bunch of clueless student toss pots, mingling with some brainwashed militant lefties ! It was quite interesting to see how every protester was white, so it's not exactly representative of the UK is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomon1 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 London protests.... why so lack of media coverage ? This is a very good question, and I'm so glad you've noticed enough to start this thread The government is held together by sticky tape and string at the moment God only knows who voted the conservatives in, but there is clearly a significant part of the British population who are really very unhappy about it. Publicising riots would probably incite similar unrest across Britain. Move along, there's nothing to see here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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