My month.

[foxxina]

Youth work, film-makingSo I'm making a documentary about male anorexia and went to a campaign for an eating disorder ward in Plymouth. A young person I associate with in one of the youth groups I help with invited me. I got to interview (my) Deputy Lord Mayor and Mayoress, some people from MGEDT (Men Get Eating Disorders Too), the organiser of the

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[glowering]

I couldn't go to the protest as I had an essay to write, otherwise I would have been front and centre. I'm certainly as angry about the subject as anyone there. BUT I would have expressed that with frenzied banner waving, not kicking the shit out of anything.

Of course, if the protest had gone entirely peacefully and responsibly and hadn't been responded to in any adequate manner, THEN I would have been up for riots. But they fucked it up and made it way too easy for Cameron to just dismiss the whole thing. Been arguing about this on facebook the last couple of days. Really bugging me.

[foxxina]

But you surely can't assess how a protest has been responded to until after the event? By which time, it's too late.

Some might argue that the time for peaceful protest in this case has been and gone, and Cameron can dismiss it all he likes - it still made headlines everywhere. 50,000 peaceful people would have been dismissed by everyone else, once they were finished paying lip service to it.

"Aw look at all the god people, being good and lovely." They're not good and lovely - they're bloody angry, you are, I am.

The riots made a difference; people got off their asses at made their opinions 100% clear. It was magnificent.

[glowering]

But now it is after the event, and, predictably, it's been 100% dismissed. Look how it's being reported on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11735955... )