Tickets, Money, Passport?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating violence on any level and certainly no acts of terrorism but the G20 protesters have thus far been a little bit of a let down. First and (certainly for me) foremost they neglected to cause enough disruption in the City this morning to affect my journey to work. Hello I was promised Bishopsgate would be closed, that the RBS I go past every day would be a focal point and that there would be major disruptions. Instead RBS put up a few crowd control barriers (not enough to stop a really angry mob) and the lily-livered Carphone Warehouse boarded up their shop. Carphone Warehouse ?! I mean they are horrid but even I wouldn’t blame them for the economic down-turn. And that was it.

So instead I find myself at my desk early, early I tell you - well 3 minutes early but it’s a technicality I claim.

We have the television on – BBC News - unsurprisingly they have a blanket coverage, building tension where there isn’t one and using their own words ‘focusing’ in on the ‘pushing and shoving (we have the subtitles on). Read: zooming in to give impression of aforementioned angry mob. However the thing that made me laugh the most and is why I love the British so much, the protesters shouted at the banks:

‘Shame on you’

Bless*

*Of course if this all goes horribly wrong, my flippant and trite monologue above should be taken in context of the 11.00am news I saw mmmkay.