Thought this might be of interest relating to the May Day anti-capitalist demonstrations in London. Equally up here in Manchester an enormous number of horses and police vans were deployed all over the city centre to deal with around a matter of 100s of people. Also I notice on the national news this morning that they charged the manchester demonstrators with drugs offences - so perhaps they were mad anarchist spliff-wielding thugs attempting to bring down the state by getting the population of manchester high on the fumes!!! John ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:47:51 +0100 (BST) Subject: policing strategy? From: John Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: John Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was interested last nite to be turned off a bus at Elephant and Castle and have to walk to Waterloo, where police had closed the streets.. I don't know how large this cordon was, but we are talking miles not yards from parliament sq.... for a demo of 3k? and this was incidently after 10pm! Apart from the impact on public transport, I wonder whether we are seeing the state setting its agenda by talking up the significance of something which managed to make all the front pages this morning... and preparing for a new mayor whose response was completely predictable? sorry to bore capital and class with such parochial matters :) Assistant Editor information Rylands IRS division JRULM e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 275 3741 fax: 275 7207 --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---