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"Bloody ell David.... who's been eating your eggs and bacon dear boy!!!!

And the Swiss don't have much to complain about... so they don't have to smash their capital up!"

I'm partly teasing about Switzerland, but you have to admit the Swiss banking system has been, shall we say, more opaque than most.

One of the reasons they don't have much to complain about is that in Switzerland there is a relatively low disparity between rich and poor compared to Britain, for example.

That's the problem with treating millions of people in a manner where all they have to look forward to is a life as low paid worker ants, they sometimes kick back.

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"but since moving to Switzerland I pay 11% tax compered to 40% in the UK.... yes I must be an idiot!"

Well, there is more to life than just money, Von Boy. I worked in Basel for awhile and though it was a very attractive town, as I recall the most exciting thing to do was to watch what happened when the Town Hall clock struck on the hour.

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I was at the march on Saturday where some put the numbers at 500,000 who knows but i didnt see any violence, all i saw was peacefull protesters people concerned about their jobs, whole families were taking part young and old and they had a good relationship with the police who were happy to be photographed alongside the protesters, so please dont associate the violence that took place with the anti-cuts march as all of this took place well away from the march...

The thing about marching peacefully is that it always tends to go ignored by the people it is levelled at.

Those same said people dont give a toss if those people smashed the entire London area up as long as it doesnt affect their pocket.

Thing is, sometimes people have to turn over a few tables to make a point. The way I see it, they smashed a lot of window and damaged property which for th emose part is insured. Im just glad they didnt turn on and hurt people

The government have acknowledged the frustration of th epeople and Im not too quick to accept everyone who partook in the destruction of property but the unfortunate thing about such events is that it does encourage those with a propensity for a good "tear up" to join in regardless of the motives the actions were intended for.

Normall those who are very disreuptive are in the minority but they are th eones that turn the tide of peaceful protest into pure thuggery

Well said, sir!

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I walked through Trafalgar Square on Sunday, the day after the march/riot. It was very embarassing seeing huge numerous of tourists who have come to see our great city, and take photos everywhere, being surrounded by all the grafitti on the statues and all over Nelson's Column. What must they think? I imagine Parliament Square, just ten minutes walk from there at the other end of Whitehall, is just as bad.

People come to our city on holiday and I don't want them to see all of that - only positive things. The grafitti should have been cleaned up in the early hours of Sunday morning - just like how they immediately remove all the rubbish after the Notting Hill Carnival. You go to Notting Hill one day later (and I mean literally the morning of the next day, the Tuesday following Bank Holiday Monday) and you wouldn't know the Carnival had even happened.

I don't think the police regained control of Trafalgar Square until 4am on Sunday morning so it didnt give much time to clear up before your arrival!

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Max. All I can say is that there is so much the people can suffer before they fight back.

This is mild in comparison to recent events in Egypt and Libya which are extreme examples with extreme results

We were a lot more civil dont you think? No one died.

I generally detest violence but unfortunately, sometimes it is very necessary. It made big news and sent a signal out to the authorities that the people have woken up from their slumber

We certainly dont want a repeat of the Toxteth riots and all that poll tax rioting stuff of the 80's and if the man on the street keeps getting squeezed and insulted then the only way he will express himself is through one of frustration

......so Von Boy tells me the Germans now want to be "like Switzerland".
Well, after starting 2 world wars and countless millions dead thats a
fucking relief !!

Apparently a lot of the people dining at the Ritz when the windows got smashed were Japanese, maybe a lot of the rich from Japan have fled their country since the earthquake, so much for the saying [we are all in this together] i dont think so !wink!