We live in interesting times. Regime change in Egypt, UN Resolution 1973 authorising a no fly zone over Libya and ecological disaster of biblical proportions in Japan.
Meanwhile in London on Saturday 26 March 2011 approximately 250,000 people [source BBC Newsnight, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/03/a_snapshot_of_the_26_march_dem.html] took to the streets to demonstrate against the proposed cuts in budgets and services to some of the most vulnerable sections of British society, the biggest public demonstration in the city since 2003 against the Iraq War.
But all the efforts of those many have, yet again, been swamped by the few hundred "anarchists", "activists" or self-declared "saviours" of the working class who deem job-done by taking over Fortnum and Mason, smashing windows and hijacking the media coverage.
Education, Social Services, Emergency Services - no one will escape the sweeping cuts the must follow but instead of proper debate and demonstration as befits a country with democratic pretensions the violent few have, as with the recent student demonstration,thrown away the moral higher ground.
By smashing up a Porsche dealership and defacing monuments we in the United Kingdom are seen by the rest of the world as being incapable of reason when our problems seem few in a worldwide context.
Let the people - the teachers, workers, parents, students - have their say, lets take back the cause from the violent few.
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