Posted 10:16 AM by Paul
Bush is Sauron

Another day another demonstration against the Bush Blair project. It's very handy living in London. You can do 7 hours work at your PC, hop on a train to Waterloo, participate in a major demonstration and be home in time for tea.

Despite the terrible events of this morning the the macrh was upbeat and upmarket. Upbeat because people feel that the message is getting across. We are not going away. Upmarket because a large section of the marchers were what the marketeers would call ABC1 and 2. Swing voters with cash to spare. There was one middle aged bloke with a chin beard flecked with grey in a nice tweed suit. That's me by the way. A TV crew roamed through the crowd and interviewed a man who for all the world looked like the chairman of a suburban Amateur Opera Society. Another film crew questioned a preppy looking dude in wire rimmed glasses carrying a placard emblazoned with the Stars and Stripes and the slogan "Give Me Back My Country". He had a strong American accent and looked like an investment banker on his day off.

But the radical eco-left were there in force. A man with bright green hair provided the march's best slogan.

Bush is Sauron. Free the Shire.

I didn't stay for the rally but had a glass of wine at Gordons Wine Bar, a subterranean dive which dates from the time of Hogarth, and then made my way home. I don't like political rallies. Same all boring speeches, finger wagging and hectoring rhetoric.

Why don't they end major demonstrations with a party and an art installation? much more 21st Century.