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Let St Pauls Be St Pauls

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 23/10/2011 08:08

Now that the protest occupying the area outside St Pauls has made its point, it's time they moved on. Any goodwill they may have for their points of view is being eroded by the problems they are causing this key place of worship and tourist attraction. They are not inconveniencing 'The City' in the slightest. Own-goal.

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NatashaBee · 23/10/2011 09:16

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tooearlymustdache · 23/10/2011 09:18

isn't a protest SUPPOSED to be an inconvenience?

and i think that's part of the problem, Cogito - The City and the bankers are untouchable.

scarevola · 23/10/2011 09:30

The Church is looking magnanimous and tolerant, and ready to curtail its activities rather than ask for protestors to be moved on.

The protesters look as is they are hitting the wrong target.

I have to agree this is now an own goal.

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 23/10/2011 10:24

The City and bankers are not untouchable... if that's what they're protesting about, it's unclear. There are plenty of ways of withdrawing your support from the worst examples of the finance industry and inconveniencing them where it hurts i.e on the bottom line. Holding up tourists and church services is not the way to do it.

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Georgimama · 23/10/2011 10:25

a protest is supposed to inconvenience yes but the general idea is to inconvenience the target of your protest, not their neighbours.

glasnost · 23/10/2011 12:27

As usual Cogito spouts of what she knows not. The protesters didn't wanto camp there originally but were forced to when Paternoster Square was denied them by its corporate owners. It was the nearest they could get to the financial district and they'd presumed it to be a safe haven. And the "point" of the Occupations is to stay there indefinately; not to pitch up, pontificate and then bugger off. (Ring a bell?)

Jesus would have been on the side of the protesters.

OP gets most things wrong.

CaveMum · 23/10/2011 12:35

Apparently they intend to stay until Christmas Sad

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 23/10/2011 12:55

It was very kind of the cathedral authorities to allow them to set up their camp in the first place but they are really regretting it now. It's costing the cathedral, one of the UK's best-loved tourist attractions, £20k a day in lost revenue and that's presumably not what the protestors intended. Now that they realise the problem, surely it would be the decent thing to move to a different site? I can see them being evicted in the same manner as the protestor in Parliament Square eventually. And no-one will object.

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glasnost · 23/10/2011 13:15

Why was a religious site making £20,000 a day in the first place? Cafe, restaurant, corporate events. Quite a tidy little earner.

Money lenders, temples...........sound familiar?

Another camp's been set up anyway in Finsbury Sq to alleviate the growing number of tents outside St. Paul's.

crazynannawitchbitch · 23/10/2011 13:19

The protestors' are fighting for the little man....isn't that what God is supposed to do? Worrying about their income sounds very much what the protestors are protesting about.

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 23/10/2011 13:22

Religious buildings need to pay for maintenance and conservation. They don't lend out money. Hmm Let's hope they take their posh little camp elsewhere and give that fine old building its space back.

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 23/10/2011 13:23

@crazynannawithbitch... didn't thing god was supposed to fight for anyone. :) History littered with the corpses of people who claimed god was on their side.

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scarevola · 23/10/2011 13:23

They have also had to close the cathedral for public worship. That is far more concerning than any revenue issues.

PeggyCarter · 23/10/2011 13:24

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mumblechum1 · 23/10/2011 13:26

Agree with Joyful and the OP.

rycooler · 23/10/2011 13:28

Agree with Cogito 100% - who are these idiots who have the time to protest for days on end? - if they're on the dole then they're being kept by the capitalist system they ( supposedly ) hate - the cretins.

PeggyCarter · 23/10/2011 13:28

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hatchypom · 23/10/2011 13:31

St pauls isn't exactly the heart of the city being a long way from threadneedle street ( if your argument is with the bank if England) or canary wharf if investment bankers are your target. Its closer to the city law firms and a few of the fund managers. Of course if hedge funds are your target you need to be in Mayfair. Closest investment bank to paternoster is JP Morgan, but that's one of many offices they have around the city.

onagar · 23/10/2011 13:34

A dignified protest can be 1000s of people turning up to show that they care enough to be there - that they think the issue is important to draw people's attention to it.

This kind of protest that blocks people getting to places is more like a child's tantrum that they will carry on until they get their own way.

It's not 'democratic' as someone claimed the other day and they don't represent me.

rycooler · 23/10/2011 13:35

If they hate the capitalist system so much - take their iPhone, laptop, Nike trainers, bank account, state benefits ( add 100 other things ) off them and let them go to the wall.

mumblechum1 · 23/10/2011 13:38

Good point, Rycooler, if those people are there for days or weeks on end, we dumb taxpayers are paying for their benefits.

rycooler · 23/10/2011 13:41

Exactly.

thunderboltsandlightning · 23/10/2011 13:41

Finsbury Square would be a better place for them to protest, if only because St Pauls is on the outskirts of the City.

MonstrouslyNarkyPuffin · 23/10/2011 13:45

They should protest outside Bank. But they're not allowed to. So they've ended up somewhere that causes no inconvenience to those they're protesting against. And upsets tourists and christians.

Sevenfoldedbloodybodies · 23/10/2011 15:24

i wish the police would make them move.
they don't have panning permission after all
they are very selfish and should go home