Meme – a collection of the best placards and slogans from March26
So what were the best signs, placards, banners and chants you saw or heard on Saturday? Or at any of the recent demos, protests and strikes for that matter? Let us know in the comments.
Adam Ramsay
March 28th, 2011 @ 11:57 pm
The Invade Jersey thing was in fact first suggested to Mark Thomas by Pete Speller – occasional BG contributor, with whom I am now drinking whisky.
Ohooohhhh I bet its an expensive malt young Squire Ramsay? Does whisky set you nuts?
Caviar is made from FISH. Eating living things is immoral! You are disgusting! You are not Adam’s mumsy!!1
Oh what jolly japes you all had while you were playing at being Revolutionaries…
Adam darling, did you remeber to pick up some caviar from Fortnums ?
Mumsy
My favourite chant all day was:
“2, 4, 6, 8 – David Cameron fuck off”.
The Invade Jersey thing was in fact first suggested to Mark Thomas by Pete Speller – occasional BG contributor, with whom I am now drinking whisky.
I liked “I still hate Thatcher” and “Does My Society Look Big in This?”
I love the d̶o̶n̶’̶t̶ invade Jersey I̶r̶a̶q̶. And many more. Just brilliant.
Yeah, the d̶o̶n̶’̶t̶ invade Jersey I̶r̶a̶q one is from Mark Thomas’ manifesto tour, it was one of the ideas that got accepted. And I spotted it at the UKUncut comedy gig in Soho Sq where Mark was performing. No idea if that was coincidence or not, though.
The Sheffield Occupation crew had a load of excellent posters, but I can’t remember any of them – the photos were on my phone, in a police station in North London…
Sheffield Occupation had some amazing posters. I only saw the ‘Post Materialist Youth…’ one (which we all loved and there some quite heated discussion over who would keep) and the Billy Elliot one, but they were both great.
We wandered round the rest of the afternoon, after we lost the main protest, and back to Hackney with the ‘Post Materialist’ placard and our own ‘Meme’ one. They got quite a lot of comments from passers by, including one girl who was studying post-materialism and stopped to chat to us about it and quite a few drunk people who wanted to know what a meme was. I might start carrying those sorts of signs around more often, not just on demos even.
Yayyyy! I’m famous!!!
“We know David Cameron, Maggie Thatcher’s bastard son!” was a pretty fun chant.
Also saw a placard that just said “LET’S GET CHARLIE SHEEN’D”, which made me giggle