From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: re UK Uproar
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:03:47 +0100


Clive Aslet (a right-winger who took part in the recent 
'Countryside Alliance' march) had written in "The Observer" 
of 1st October that the huge anti-war demo in London 
the following week was just "the usual suspects....
rent-a-mob lefties".

Maybe these Countryside Alliance types believe that it is possible
to "rent a mob" because that is exactly what so many of them
did. Many of them paid their employees a day's wages to be 
in London for  _their_  event. THEY  "rented a mob". However,
the truth is that this sort of thing is certainly  NOT  usual.

Anyway, this week the 'Observer' has various letters
in from people saying that, far from being the usual suspects,
this anti-war protest was the first demonstration they 
had ever taken part in. One guy, David Smith from Weymouth
in Dorset, said he took part in a demo, for the first time
in his life, at the age of sixty-one. (Same age as me, but
as one of "the usual suspects" I've taken part in hundreds.) 


Dave Coull