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Student protesters' tribal chants make them look like silly student protesters

Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 9 November, 2011 12:40

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Chants so far include ‘Daaayvid Cameron! Fuck off back to Eton’…‘Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the Tories at the top…’, ‘Tory Tory Tory scum scum scum’ and ‘the only cuts we wanna see TORIES ON THE GUILLOTINE’

Lord knows I’m no Tory but come on now. You can sing what you like, but if you advertise your visceral tribalism through wholly partisan lyrics, don’t complain when people dismiss you as immature. Because you are.

The following couple of chants are at least constructive, although the second one suffers slightly from inferior scansion.

‘No ifs, no buts, no education cuts’ and ‘Take away E-M-A we say no way’

But regardless of that they make the people singing them sound reasonable and deserving of respect and attention. A few people do the image, and thus the cause, of the whole movement no favours by spouting infantile drivel like that quoted above.

Source: East London Lines, which is an excellent place to find out what’s happening today.

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