The police have a new weapon against anti-cuts protestors: potato salad
In an illuminating insider’s report on the weekend’s UK Uncut protest party outside Nick Clegg’s house, Rikki at Indymedia warns protestors against accepting police hospitality. Apparently potato salad was offered as ingratiation ahead of some sly questions about the participants’ intentions.
[He doesn’t say what potato salad the Met favoured, but in my experience the judicious addition of the under-appreciated radish makes all the difference. This recipe is a good one.]
It looks like a happy event, despite the over-simplification of complex issues.
For example, one picnic-goer, Jean Sandler, is quoted in the Mail:
“No one voted for Cameron and Clegg’s disastrous plan that means that we end up paying for the banks’ crisis. These cruel cuts are designed to destroy our public services, the NHS, the Welfare state and our future.”
Denying the legitimacy of an elected government is a good way of making yourself sound like extremist cranks.
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