Highlights, lowlights, links, and sheer amazement at the train wreck that is Britain’s entitlement society as documented extensively here, from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream:
Watching spoiled UK students riot over having to pay for stuff. Lots of keffiyehs in crowd. Apparently “freeing Palestine” would help…?
“Education is a right not a privilege” — UK rioter
Metaphor of the evening: Churchill Statue in Parliament Square defaced
BBC reporter just described attacking royal car, defacing Parliament Square, igniting Trafalgar Christmas Tree as “civil disobedience”
I may be misremembering this, but wasn’t there a time when attacking the heir to the British throne carried penalties?
Anarchists are pretending to be vampires on the camera behind the BBC guy. That’ll show those misguided capitalist MPs!
BBC News: UK student protesters attacking car with Prince Charles and Camilla inside
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* Omri Ceren / Mere Rhetoric
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