Twitter extract from @PennyRed, 4th December 2010 Laurie Penny is a writer, journalist, feminist, reprobate. working mainly for the New Statesman. Tweets are in a personal capacity. http://twitter.com/#!/PennyRed (Timings are approximate)
Twitter extract from @PennyRed, 4th December 2010
Laurie Penny is a writer, journalist, feminist, reprobate.
working mainly for the New Statesman. Tweets are in a
personal capacity. http://twitter.com/#!/PennyRed
(Timings are approximate)
Extract begins…
11:00hrs
Off to Topshop to watch the flashmob!
11:12hrs
Topshop swarming w police, rather unsurprisingly. I didn’t
know this was the biggest clothes shop in the world!
11:35hrs
Security guards chucking out a woman on suspect of being a
protester, apparently because she does not favour the
Topshop look…
12:00hrs
Protesters now being wrestled out. Huge shout of ‘pay your
tax!’ Going up in store.
12:07hrs
They just tried to drag out Polly Toynbee! Security guard
tried to pick her up and carry her out!
12:13hrs
Now ordinary shoppers being removed violently for
supporting protest. Lady w bags yells ‘you can’t do this!
I’m here to shop’!
12:17hrs
They’re sticking labels on products saying ‘special offer-
this item is free’
12:23hrs
‘No press unauthorised by Arcadia’! Four guards just
carried me out and threw me on the pavement. Yes I am in
pain
12:37hrs
I got in again round the back! Sit in going on, chanting
‘tax dodgers go to hell! Take your tory mates as well’
12:43hrs
Honestly officer! I’m just here to buy some jeggings!
12:45hrs
Staff seem to be being evacuated. Are they closing the
shop? It’ll be a chore to get this lot to leave.
12:51hrs
Polly Tonybee: ‘Topshop thugs just tried to manhandle me
out of the store and did not succeed. This is a very
important protest’
12:53hrs
New chant: ‘we are the tax enforcement society!’
12:55hrs
Store now completely shut. Protesters jamming the door
yelling ‘Philip Green is sponging off the state!’
12:58hrs
Officer CW2926 just tried to prevent me moving through the
crowd. ‘There’s a time and a place for walking in that
direction’
13:00hrs
13 year old boy from Sedgehill school being penned in by
police with his family: ‘I’m here to protest against tax
dodgers.’
13:02hrs
Protest has moved on to BHS. Cops blocking the door.
13:06hrs
The riot vans are coming! It’s the fashion police! I always
knew they’d come for me! #ukuncut #topshopprotest
13:10hrs
Now they’re at Vodafone. I’m off for an egg and sausage
roll and a deadline. Laters.
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