City Staff Told to Dress Down

[nofuture]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164999/G20-rioters-hang-banker-effigies-lampposts-city-staff-told-wear-disguises.html


City workers are being urged to stay at home or to dress down during next week's G20 summit to avoid being targeted by anti-capitalist protesters.

Unprecedented measures are being put in place to prepare for thousands of demonstrators targeting the City and Canary Wharf.

About 3,000 anti-capitalist protesters are expected, with groups next Wednesday marching to the Bank of England, holding 'flashcamps' outside the European Climate Exchange in Bishopsgate, and marching on the US Embassy.

Demonstrators have vowed to hang effigies of bankers from lampposts along the protest route.

Wonder if the agent provocateurs are busy dirtying their clothes and not shaving.

[fekdemasons]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164999/G20-rioters-hang-banker-effigies-lampposts-city-staff-told-wear-disguises.html


City workers are being urged to stay at home or to dress down during next week's G20 summit to avoid being targeted by anti-capitalist protesters.

Unprecedented measures are being put in place to prepare for thousands of demonstrators targeting the City and Canary Wharf.

About 3,000 anti-capitalist protesters are expected, with groups next Wednesday marching to the Bank of England, holding 'flashcamps' outside the European Climate Exchange in Bishopsgate, and marching on the US Embassy.

Demonstrators have vowed to hang effigies of bankers from lampposts along the protest route.

Wonder if the agent provocateurs are busy dirtying their clothes and not shaving.


Does this mean they'll be drinking champers from paper cups instead ?

[steevo]

The people on view working in those banks are not the ones pulling the strings.

[light seeker]

When I worked in London, it wasn't unusual practice to dress down at times like these; I'm specifically referring to the annual May day riots.

[drhemp]

Has anyone else on hear read City Boy Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile by Geraint Anderson (http://www.cityboy.biz/)

An ex-banker who made millions decided to salvage his conscience a bit by dishing out all the dirt on the city; it's an hilarious read, which I definitely recommend.

'Who is Cityboy? He's every brash, suited, FT-carrying idiot who ever pushed past you on the tube. He's the egotistical buffoon who loudly brags about how much cash he's made on the market at otherwise pleasant dinner parties. He's the greedy, ruthless wanker whose actions are helping turn this world into the shit-hole it's rapidly becoming. For one period in my life, he was me.'

[nofuture]

The Geraint Anderson book is fiction isn't it?

[drhemp]

The Geraint Anderson book is fiction isn't it?

Fiction based on his time as a banker.

I certainly didn't find it very hard to believe some of the shenanigans he alleges take place in the banking industry.

[pinkgrapefruit]

Wonder if the agent provocateurs are busy dirtying their clothes and not shaving.

I bet some of the Provocateurs will be dressed in Armani Suits.