Storm the Banks

The G20 meeting is attracting just the sort of "persons", that you would expect, onto the streets of London and The International Herald Tribune reports that:

"The British police are preparing to deal with violent protests as anarchists threaten to bring chaos to the Group of 20 summit meeting in London.

All leave for police officers in the capital has been called off and businesses are being advised to cancel unnecessary meetings because protesters have vowed to target the financial district as the world leaders gather to discuss the financial crisis.

Previous world economic summit meetings and conferences have been targeted by anarchists, anti-globalization protesters and other groups. The police say they fear that the gathering April 2 in London, set against anger at the economic downturn, could provoke more violence.

Environmentalists, antiwar campaigners and protesters have already indicated that they would demonstrate April 1 as politicians and officials begin arriving in London.

A movement called "Storm the Banks" is circulating on the Internet indicating that anti-capitalist protesters are planning to focus their attention on the Bank of England during what some protesters have dubbed "Financial Fools Day.""

Some thoughts:
1. If you are a City worker I suggest 1 April and 2 April would be good days to take as holiday
2. If you are in charge of a City Bank's Disaster Recovery Plan, maybe the coming week would be a good time to check it all works
3. Don't forget that the last time the UK hosted such a gathering, the G8 in 2005, home-grown Islamic terrorist scum carried out suicide bombings on trains and a bus in London that killed 52 people and maimed and injured many more
4. Remember also that Gordon Brown's government are likely to be looking for an excuse to suspend democracy (utilising the Civil Contingency Act) and so put off the May local and June EU elections and a carefully engineered riot and terrorist atrocity really would help here


It looks as though we may have one week of sanity before London becomes an even more unpleasant place to live and work.

So to all of you who were taken in by Tony Blair's slick salesmanship in 1997, 2001 and 2005 and to all of you who believed that Gordon Brown was an economic genius rather than a weird control-freak who got lucky and still managed to screw up the Country beyond redemption - "Can you hear the drums?"