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On Saturday the largest demonstration in Scottish History took place. It was hard to miss the coverage of this event – even if you were there. The newspapers tried to jump on the bandwagon – the Sunday mail (amongst others) had made up thousands of placards that conveniently had “SUNDAY MAIL” as the most prominent feature on them. Some protestors were taking these banners and covering them with homemade posters. When it was noticed they were taking so many the SM’s promotional staff began to think they were very popular. They asked where the group were sitting with all the placards was so they could take a picture for the front page. When the march got round to leaving the vast majority of the Sunday Mail signs were still there….
Today’s Guardian (Mon 4th) mentions ‘Sir Bob’s Challenge to World Leaders’ whereby Bob now says that it’s up to them to sort it out from here on. How much of a challenge this is when he was photographed with his head on Blair’s shoulders looking like a dog having its belly scratched I don’t know. Chris Martin of Coldplay who I have seen painted in some papers as a hardline radical said that “this [the concert] is the greatest thing organised in the history of the world.” Possible overstatement? After all funerals, when organised correctly, can be more fun than a Mariah Carey concert. The parade of celebrities backslapping each other because they managed to turn up on Saturday may have helped to make so many people come along but it may not have helped the world’s poor one bit. Having what was essentially a party and then saying ‘we’ve done our bit now you do yours’ to the G8 leaders is not only an abdication of responsibility it’s like asking an MRSA bug to run a hospital. |
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