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Why dod you go by bus? There is a Docklands Light Railway Station next to Excel... so why not hire a train since the trip was in the early morning.

I am also in the Excel centre now.U try to get it.
Thanks!

1. Because we were instructed on pain of sniper fire to only go in by official bus. All the DLR stations are closed.

This is exactly the sort of thing I expect, especialy when the gvt introduce ID cards and the database. (Or they could save 10 to 20 billion in these straightened economic times and not bother, but common sense and previous commitments to civil liberties don't matter with this gvt)

Paul,

I have been saying for ages that the problem with Britain lies in the management. I should know this as I am a manager.

The problem is general, applying to both the private and public sectors, and revolves around the principle of hierarchy as structured in the British class system. Everyone is looking down their nose at everyone else.

You have to be ambitous to succeed rather than competent. This is why the place is run by idiots whose only standard is to please their boss.

I can reasonably claim that George Orwell knew my father and a couple of old friends. Sadly they are all dead. Lucky people!

What in all that's holy does "pre-turned away" mean?

Talk about mangling the language.

During WW2 lots of people were shot and killed under the illusion they were parachists when 'Dad's Army' began manning road blocks.

A pearl of truth this one:

"...but we, the Brits, have this way of turning everything into a chaotic soul-less mess."

And so broadly applicable: the Brown leadership, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ or the City, for example...

Stanilic #5- thats exactly it:
"You have to be ambitous to succeed rather than competent"

That neatly sums up what I have been pondering for a year or two ie the gap between what is claimed and what occurs, and how come certain people are in charge of everything.

Paul Mason - this is the future of journalism- sitting in a shed with lots of other talking heads, being fed stuff by those in charge.

In fact a lot of journalism has been like that for years. Which is one reason newspapers are selling fewer copies.

Put a token of authority on a man - whether a day-glo bib or an armband - and you create a bureaucrat, a thug, or all too often, both. Autocrats the world over and throughout history have known this trick.

This three hour wait of course, and this level of hassle, rudeness and incomprehension by those in authority, is exactly what the poorest of the world have to put up with just to get into work, or get to a water source, every single day.

With the possible exception of the water source, I hate to break it to you (still inside the London 'bubble', see), but welcome to 'our' world!

...it imagined what Britain would look like if it became a bureaucratic collectivist dictatorship.

IF......!!!!!!!?

So, as somewhat redeemed by it, you can keep the last line.

Yours, one of (iv).

ps: And as we're into artistic warnings of the near future, you might want to hark back to what that V might stand for. Tony's kid can help.

Well Paul ,you should have just stayed in bed and hired the Jungle Book from block busters or downloaded it from you tube

Their is nothing that the G'towe conference would have to say in public that Walt Disney hasn't already said better in film .

Alternatively read some PG Wodehouse and Jeeves will tell your intuition whats going on .

I posted a satire a while back where i said Dyno rod should be called in to clear the blockage in the financial system and would probably charge 1 trillion pounds [not far off]

As has been said

Only clowns and mystics speak the truth.


The symbolism of the G'towe conference photoshoot is telling .Kevin Rudd the heartistic Australian premier was under the halo [o in jobs] how apt and Burlesqueonly moved away from his Halo to be seen nearer president Obama ,also how apt.


The sooner the pigs trough between the Crests of the economic waves is filled in by the central banks ,then the sooner we can prepare for the real tsunami rather than mistake its deflationary precursor for it

Some scientists believe that the mythical [but not defacto untrue] great flood at the time of Noah was caused by a massive build up of liquidity in the himalyas basin that caused a Rock slide and CONSEQUENTIAL cascade of water into the region in conjunction with heavy rainfall caused by a red hot meteorite passing within 6.66 inches of the ocean surface

As it was in the time of Noah so shall it be symbolicaly in the last days

Truth is always revealed symbolicaly before being revealed substantialy ,even over vast time periods.


The Herald of free enterprize was a warning as was the twin towers world trade centre colapse seven years before the 777.7precipitous domino colapse in the DOW INDEX

In operation is a spiritual calculus that overrides all other powers shaping them as putty at the appointed hour for the appointed purpose .

In 2011 it will be 40 years since the gold standard was dropped in 1971 by the then president Nixon .

USA power has been sustained in the economic wilderness by a faith based "in God we trust currency exclusively with no gold backing for approaching 40 years.

The economic turmoil represents the final struggle between Good and evil on a global level where the lawless one[s] hiding behing Darwinism is[are] being revealed .

Paul: i think it was not a well-managed media opportunity and i have to agreed with your comments...about the hierachy!

~Dennis Junior~

Paul,

I fully sympathise with your difficulties at Excel.

I had the misfortune to be in London last Monday, when I had a meeting near Piccadilly (north of The Mall/Birdcage Walk), and arrived in town at Victoria (south of those streets). I got caught up in the Mexican President's state visit. This involved a bunch of dumb policemen effectively hemming everyone into St James's Park between said streets whilst our supposedly under-resourced army pranced about in the clothes they'd found in the Royal dressing up box. Hemming us all in was, presumably the police honing their tactics for the G20 demos, I don't know. In any case, nobody could cross the road if there was any sign of a soldier marching or riding up the roads Presumably if anyone had tried, we'd have been arrested under "anti-terror legislation" or, worse, became Jean-Charles de Menezes II.

I left the UK three years ago to live in Ireland. My adopted home has its faults, I acknowledge, but we certainly don't have the same security obsession that Britain does. Politicians are so unpopular partly because of their self-importance in thinking that their "protection" is worthy of so much disruption to everyone else. It isn't. Somebody needs to make them aware of it, but if even the media is threatened with shooting if they try to get too close and use non-approved transport links, then who can tell them? Don't you think Britain has ceased to display any sembalnce of being a liberal democracy? And don't you think you and your colleagues should be spending more time highlighting this than acting as nothing more than a distribution channel for government media releases about "summits" that just don't matter?

Whether G20 was well run or not the tactics used to great the great and the good there were precisely the same used by General Brian Horrocks's vain attempt to get the Guards Armoured Brigade to Arnhem in 1944 using the only road available. Brown was more successful than Horrocks but the dockside dinosaur cranes paid poignant tribute.
One other thing they glossed over in the G20 aftermath was the 9-1 rejection of the RBS remuneration at its AGM. CEO Hester said afterwards that the vote was noted but nothing would be done to effect its sentiment. Or the legality of the RBS implementing recommendations which had been rejected.
Doubtless Brown intends to treat the rest of us in the same cavalier way as in the past.