Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Intent on being part time protesters

It appears that the anti-capitalist protesters see fit to rally to the cause only during daylight hours. A thermal imaging camera panning across the rows of tents in the grounds of St Pauls quickly spotted that during the night, the overwhelming majority of the cathedral's unwelcome guests disappear from the site. Presumably they head back to their comfortable, upper middle class homes where they can snipe at mummy and daddy for being stinking rich before heading off to their comfy feather beds for a good night's kip. Next day they return to their occupation of daytime protesters, calling in at Costa Coffee and other symbols of hated capitalism for breakfast.

I bet the church authorities are regretting their decision to let this mob of middle class muppets camp it up outside St Pauls. Personally, if I had to protest outside St Pauls, it wouldn't be capitalism I would be protesting against. Instead, it would be the appallingly expensive entrance fee that visitors have to pay to set foot in the Cathedral.

4 comments:

David Rogers said...

I agree Jonathan, but perhaps being just a trifle charitable, maybe some of them have working night shifts to go to......or is it all at taxpayers' expense, either benefits or pensions?

Jen said...

Be fair now. It could be that 9 in 10 tents are empty at the time of the thermal imaging because there's an orgy going on in tent number 10!

Suzanne Fletcher said...

just wondering - who should pay for the upkeep of the Cathedral though ?

Jonathan Wallace said...

Suzanne, I have no problem with visitors paying for the upkeep by being charged to enter the building. Getting rid of the protest camp so that the cathedral can reopen would clearly benefit the coffers of St Pauls. The current price however is rather steep. When I last went to St Pauls (November 2009) I decided I wasn't prepared to pay the £16 entrance fee. It didn't seem worth it.