(Take a leaflet and) Stop The War!

Went on the Anti War march around London yesterday, there were thousands upon thousands of people and I was very surprised not to see at least one of the sunday papers with a photo or two on the cover. It really has come to something when such a large protest can take place in central London, shutting off many major roads for most of the day, against government policy and nary a mention in the media. Anyway, those gripes aside, it was a good day. The sun came out and I took quite a few pictures. I have more on film - but I'll have to wait until I get my film back from the printers. Took me right back to the heady days of anti Community Charge marches; only difference being that those marches generally ended in a right royal knees-up... I didn't hang around to listen to the speeches, the PA wasn't up to much and I kept getting bothered by various rentacause Socialist Worker parasites, desperate to self-publicize and foist their latest (non-recycled) pamphlet/book/DVD on me. I asked one person who persisted ("take a leaflet and stop the war!") if her pamphlet was on recycled paper - she ignored me, so I asked again. She stopped mid-invective and said 'of course they are'. She was clearly lying. A small thing, perhaps, but how can these people then continue ranting about how the government is lying to us all? Seems to me the government have more to gain by lying - what was her excuse? You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem. Those people are part of the problem, only they'd like to take the credit for being [part of] the solution. Can't stand them. [...and relax.] The stopthewar table had some very nice t-shirts though, must be said (not available on their website).