Passing through Manchester city centre yesterday, what seemed to be the tail end, but which turned out to be the heart, of a particularly embarrassing British parody of the "yellow vest" protests that have sprung up on the continent some like to pretend we're about to sever all ties with forever, made its way across Piccadilly Gardens, extolling the virtues of a "no deal Brexit" and expressing a totally incoherent demand to be given "our country" "back". I grabbed a few seconds of footage as the tram took me away, thankfully, in the opposite direction.

giltes jaunes protestors since November by the usual motely bunch of hard Brexiters, hooligans, conspiracy fans and racists, and none of them have gained any real momentum. This may have something to do with the fact that such people shares very little common ground politically with the altogether more impressive French "giltes jaunes" movement, Although things do seem to have kicked ever so slightly more off down in London, the whole affair was as pathetic as could be predicted. Various attempts have been made to mobilise the anti-establishment sentiment of theprotestors since November by the usual motely bunch of hard Brexiters, hooligans, conspiracy fans and racists, and none of them have gained any real momentum. This may have something to do with the fact that such people shares very little common ground politically with the altogether more impressive French "giltes jaunes" movement, whose demands align with a broadly leftist agenda - workers' rights, economic equality, social and environmental justice, and anti-fascism/capitalism and so on. But try telling them that.





Anyway, around the same time, the rumour began to circulate that the mob had turned its anger onto the nation's favourite pasty provider, Greggs, who have enjoyed a week of mostly free, positive publicity since releasing a "sausage roll" suitable for those loony left soyboys like me who prefer not to eat food that was made only at the expense of the pointless suffering and murder of defenceless animals.

























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