It's Snowing!

Well in the UK at least. It's actually been snowing in some parts of the country for about a week but today (30/11) around 70mm settled in London. As London is a large city in the south of the country if it snows there it normally means that it's snowing across the entire country.

Funnily enough this meant that the N30 student protests didn't really get started. Around 100 people protested in Birmingham, 400 in Liverpool and 1000 in London. There the police did everything they could to provoke trouble by suddenly going back on an agreement with protest organisers that they could march from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square via Whitehall by placing a cordon across Whitehall. However the low turnout meant that there was no confrontation and the protesters dispersed in small groups. This meant that all that really happened was a large of police officers spent the day standing around looking really cold.

Last night (29/11) there was a similarly over-hyped demonstration in the South London borough of Lewisham. Here around 100 people gathered to witness a vote on the local council budget. They weren't allowed in leading to some pushing and shoving between the protesters, the building security and the local police. Once everything had died down the Territorial Support Group (TSG) were deployed mainly so the Metropolitan police could issue a press release saying they'd been forced to send in the riot squad.

Also there's currently an emergency ambulance parked outside the front of my property but I have no idea why because it's certainly not nothing to do with me.