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Posted 6 years ago #
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Pretty!
I am putting a Rule 2 on cardboard.
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@iwrats lettering much better, but my helpers and I enjoyed doing this.
i decided we needed a family friendly/civil poster.
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Hearing that more than just the abhorrent man himself is traveling up to Scotland...
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@SRD
Yes, and your kerning is better than mine. Making the banner together is surely as important as showing it? I don't think obscenity is a proper response to this man, no matter how tempting. A reminder of the universal human brother- and sisterhood is surely a correct response.
@jdanielp
What next? Satan?
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Putting up a 'No to Trump' poster from yesterday's free press.
Last Sunday I had a customer in from New York buying a bike to take back. Like many there he hates Trump and admired Scotland for not rolling over to his demands and seeing him off in court. Apparently Trump complained to May about the FM on more than one occasion. Good!Posted 6 years ago # -
@IWRATS something lighter than Satan... ;)
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A bird? A plane? Superman?
Surely Satan, as a former angel, weighs nothing?
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@LaidBack: Like many there he hates Trump and admired Scotland for not rolling over to his demands and seeing him off in court.
Although the Scottish Government did allow Trump to build a golf course (the kind of facility that Scotland is critically short of, I'm sure you'll agree) on part of an SSSI.
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@ejstubbs, my recollection is that Alex Salmond used to be quite chummy with The Donald. To me some of The Alex's rhetoric was a sort of Trump-Lite. Whereas Nicola Sturgeon is altogether more measured in her rhetoric and indeed in her circle of friends. I believe she is to be commended as she is off on the Pride March today and not interested in meeting the orange Bigot.
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Final version:
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Excellent banner.
I met Paul Laverty the film maker (I Daniel Blake is one he has written recently) at the meadows on his bike.
He said his favourite banner was We shall Overcomb
Friendly vibe, spoke to SWP, CP and momentum. Trump unites the left factions.
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Excellent vibe with some CCEery, many Nats, Colin Fox, Andy Wightman and one poor confused pro-Trump boy marching quietly with us, wrapped in a Union flag, until the cops hoiked him out. Later seen swigging Jack Daniels from the bottle on his own.
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@iwrats, spotted the silver haired gentle man. Explaining something to a Comrade. I thought the vibe was mellow. Liam Fox is a complete rule 2. JC is on him
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“Trump unites the left factions.”
Enough?
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Liam Fox is a base lickspittle.
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@gembo: my recollection is that Alex Salmond used to be quite chummy with The Donald.
Not after Trump lost the windfarm battle: Alex Salmond branded Trump “three times a loser”!
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@ejstubbs
Sorry bout that. Had hoped it might embed.
Fox is a dog. 'Leader of the free world' my bottom bracket.
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@Iwrats, for nano second thought you had gone off The Fantastic Mr Fox but you are correctly dissing Liam not Colin.
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@chdot not enough.
@ejstubbs, Alex latterly tried to extract himself that is true but they have definitely played some rounds together and had chummy chats in the clubhouse afterwards like a couple of good pal blokes. in my head.
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@gembo
Never. Chatted with Foxy and met Mrs Foxy too. Foxy moaning about parking his Merc.
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@iwrats, there is a Mrs Foxy. Is she played by Anjelica Huston?
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I only go to POP demos, but did go to this. Lots of non-demo types there I thought. Favourite sign:- "Against this sort of President". Very polite...
Is this the biggest demo in Edinburgh for quite a while? Did the indy demos pull in more than this?
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Our long time friendship is why I am the only British TV journalist he speaks to (this was my fourth interview with him since he ran for President, two as a candidate, two as POTUS.)
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I'd thought about bringing my bike but decided it might be a hazard if we got packed in a bit. I really wish I had though. I had a grand time walking down the closed roads to come and meet the march and was jealous of the cyclists. Can we not have that route for the next 'Let's Ride'? I found it funny that few other pedestrians took advantage of having the Bridges to walk on pre-march and stuck to the crowded pavements. The police were being very reasonable about non-marching cyclists using the closed roads which was nice to see. ("Aye, on ye go, keep it slow and try to stick to the correct side of the road where you can, mate").
Quite a strange thing to see quite so many serious police prowling the edges of such a good-natured crowd tho. Kids and dugs are (mostly) all that's needed for effective crowd control. They keep everyone mellow. Naebody wants to scare the bairns or step on the dug.
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@Trixie
The machine-gun dudes on the Meadows seemed like overkill right enough. I guess they were concerned about white supremacists.
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Pictures I saw of the machine gun cops they were all smiley rather than serious, not that that helps
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I went too, although I don't usually do demonstrations (apart from PoP). Didn't spot any CCEers or even SRD's banner but I did leave before the speeches started.
My mother was pleased that I went.Posted 6 years ago # -
Missed as was at a wedding in the lakes.
We did have archery set up for the post wedding brunch activity and the grooms father who is an archery instructor had brought multiple trump masks attached to watermelons on sticks with Apples on the head for us to shoot at.
Was rather fun although should note that medals were awarded for hitting the apple, not hitting trump. Accuracy not animosity...
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