Sunday 27 March 2011

6,000 Crazy (and half a million pretty sane)

Just watching the news coverage of the TUC protest march. It reminded me of an old Spizz Oil song  - 6,000 Crazy - so called because a commentator claimed that there were only 6,000 crazy people who liked punk rock. I've no idea how many "Crazies" there were smashing up London, but I'd wager that it was far less than 6,000 or even 600. The right wing press have their story and their excuse to keep the 1/2 million sane, well behaved and creditable people who protested with dignity off the front page.

In the shop earlier i was watching the coverage and one of my customers who is a staunch Tory came in for a cup of tea. As ever he made a pretty intelligent point. He said that if people didn't have the perception that the bankers had "got away with it", then people might accept the cuts. As everyone with half a brain knows the bank bale out caused the collapse, people are indignant. He said that no bank should be legally allowed to pay a bonus until the deficit is under control. He then told me of a couple of small businesses locally who have recently been shafted by the banks.

He told me that in his opinion, if the TUC had organised a march against Bank bonuses and bad banking practices, they'd have got a million people on the March and Camoron and Osborne would have had to listen.

For once, I totally agreed with him.

For those of you wanting some Saturday Night Punk Rock, try this for size ! Spizz Oil - 6,000 crazy

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