Because nowadays arresting people is against their civil liberties / human rights / right to protest etc.

The hands off approach adopted in recent years has failed miserably

As one the board's default left wingers, can I say that I couldn't agree with you more. Inarticulate anger serves very little purpose and that website is as inarticulate as they come.

The left is sorely in need of new ideas, weighed down as it by unimaginative (if not entirely wrong) Corbyn-like regurgitations on one extreme to kindergarten anarchists like this on the other. The failure of the left has not been entirely ideological but rather it has been a failure to develop a viable alternative form of social democracy since the discrediting of Marxism as a viable basis for a system of government (at least taken literally).

Until the left generates some serious, innovative thought I am afraid that opposition is left in the hands of idiots who offer little but disruption for the sake of it. If those of us on the left aren't prepared to call a spade a digging implement then we're part of the problem, not the solution.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Any protest against the current system is to be applauded.
That's unless you enjoy the current system and all that it stands for?

Time to move forward together.

I find this an unusual view in the general context of the present moment. Corbyn has reinvigorated a huge element of British public opinion and continues to close the gap on the Tories in the opinion polls, projecting what is if not in substance at least in symbolism a form of radical socialism that is a complete departure from the Blairite third way project.

Of course I have to also point out that if you feel Marxism has been discredited because of 20th century attempts at pursuing it, then you clearly haven't read any Marx, which was as strictly anti-authoritarian as it was egalitarian, speaking more about liberating workers from long hour wage labour and providing a social means by which we could feel more free to act as we pleased without concern for our material wellbeing. But that's another thread entirely.

As for the protest, live and let live, it's mainly symbolic anyway, and stop getting so offended if some kids chase down a sports car, that sh*t happens all the time.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

As soon as these people break off from their "protest" and start attacking those who they consider to be better off or more wealthy, it demonstrates how thin the line is between (self) righteous indignation and simple jealousy.

Some aspects of capitalism are indeed distasteful, but just cast your eye round the modern world and consider the alternatives.

Edited by palace_in_frogland (07 Nov 2015 9.28am)

Did you ever take a step back and look at why you weren't one of them?

If you've got a nice car they'll try to smash it but blame everyone else for being poor.

Have any of these idiots ever looked up to anyone who's done well? Even the likes of Lord Sugar are scum to them.

I saw some 2-bob comedian's quote suggesting that doleites contribute the most because all their money goes towards the tax on fags and booze.

Overall the message stinks and says "why bother?".

Edited by johnfirewall (08 Nov 2015 2.11pm)