Marching on

I've never been to a national demonstration without a single SWP placard in the entire place before. It was slightly disconcerting although I'm pulling through, thanks for asking.

The climate demo seemed pretty sprightly - although there were quite a number of pro-vegan leafletteers who were getting about a bit, no doubt, boosted through their healthy living and good karma. Organisers claimed 10,000, the police 5,000 which makes precisely 7,500 in attendance - including Nick Clegg, John McDonnell, Caroline Lucas and all the gang.

I don't mean to pick on Clegg, having just written a post about how awful I think he is, but his speech was simply terrible. He couldn't get his sentences out and half way through a point he'd suddenly look startled and change direction.

I swear at one point he was about to condemn the entire banking system, realised what he was saying, did a kind of rabbit in the headlights look and then said Brown shouldn't have cut VAT... which is as hard hitting a point against climate change as you were likely to hear from him that day.

I'm sure the Lib Dems have got better people than this bloke - they must do. What about that Cable bloke? He seems nice. Anyway, I promise to say something nice about the Lib Dems soon - I just can't promise it will be about their leader.

Pic from the funky new London Indymedia site.