Oh goodie! Such fun. One big demo to change the world. Lots of singing and lots of gap-year drums to beat.
Better tell miscellaneous workmen, such as newspaper vendors, to go somewhere else that day or risk being held hostage to the demonstrator’s fortune.

“In the UK, we’ve had years of recession, a desecrated welfare system, rising fuel poverty and inequality. The G8 owe us: for the public money that has been used to bail out the banks; for the jobs we’ve lost, the homes we’re losing and the pensions they’ve taken from us.”

The same welfare system which has never spent more in nominal terms and is almost at a peak in real terms?

The money that has bailed out the banks which has almost all been repaid?

Jobs? I’m guessing many of these protesters have never had one but the actual number of people in work in the UK has never been higher….

Home repos in the UK are around 30,00 a year and falling…and the number of owners in arrears is also dropping fast.

Pensions haven’t been “stolen” except for the private sector, where Gordon Brown was the thief.

It’s lovely to rant about how the nasty capitalists have destroyed everything, but the reality is far from their distorted, imagined story. I’m glad few people take these people seriously, but I’m amazed they are given any airtime at all. That said i’m not surprised it’s the loonys from UKUncut and Occupy leading this charge.

Hey Tyler – what country are you in again?

Isn’t ‘activist’ another word for ‘communist’?

And what might these activists do that is going to change anything? Bang on about Starbucks some more?
Or is this kind of activism just seen as generally positive whatever people are campaigning about? … as long as it could be seen as broadly progressive of course. Fracking, save the whales, CND, hate George Bush and Tony ”B liar” etc (yawn). And posh Tories and power stations, ‘gas guzzlers’ and McDonald’s. As all these people can get together and network and everything. It’s like the modern Woodstock. Is this why LC promotes this stuff?
Anyway, it’s in Northern Ireland – shouldn’t they be going over there?

@OP: “There will be speakers, music, poetry and workshops as well as an element of surprise that will be revealed on the day…”

Wot do you mean? Do you reckon that a pseudo spontaneous uprising might occur? Or is it just the press flipping the tag on a story to “no longer embargoed”?

I was scepticle until I heard there’d be poetry involved.

I’m also reminded of Alexei Sayle’s comment that anyone who uses the word ‘workshop’ outside of light engineering is a twat.