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I really wish the term "Anti Capitalist" would stop being used. They are NOT anti capitalist... because they are protesting the current system thats in place, and while that system uses the name capitalism, thats not what it really is...

What they are prostesting is the corrupt elete buying and owning the goverment and the police. They are protesting the fact that by sitting behind a desk and pushing a few buttons to move money around, that has be conjured out of thin air, from one place to another, they somehow deserve million dollar paypackets while hard working people slogging it out, actually producing things or providing a real service are struggling to pay their mortgage, their electicity and gas bills and council tax and leaving nothing for themselves...

Stop misrepresenting them.. Please.. (i said please)

- Scott, Australia, 16/11/2011 08:21
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Thats right Boris,lets take away all forms of peacefull protest and leave violence as the only option,afterall we are now governed by a Dictator and fall under the Communist EU.Greece have had their PM removed by the EU and replaced by an ex EU Commisioner.Italy have had their PM replaced by the EU with another ex EU commisioner.The UK population is banned by Dictator Cameron from voting on his beloved EU and now Boris wants to ban peacefull protest like in communist China.What ever happened to democracy in the UK.

- dave, london, 16/11/2011 06:36
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So, in America, pressure from the Super-Rich 1% abuses legal procedure to appoint a different judge to enact an illegal law, then uses the US police (Paid for by the people to defend the people. NOT paid for by the 1% who refuse to pay tax and have broken laws to get to their position) to violently eject the only public expression of the interests of 99% of the electorate. They then renege on their promise that they'll be allowed back in. The last time something like this was seen in the US was in 1970, when students were shot for opposing the war on Cambodia.

This emboldens the City of London Corporation to renege upon its legal agreement to allow the Occupy St Paul's protest to remain, now welcomed by the Church.

Plainly, there is no reason to trust the organisations which have taken these actions. Not only are they undemocratic but they are also illegal and strangers to any kind of truth.

Calling the almost inhumanly well-behaved protesters 'Crusties' is not only demonstrably inaccurate but smacks very strongly of some sort of attempt to identify a section of society as in some way subhuman or lacking in any Civil Rights.

Next time the City of London issue you a legal promise or undertaking, there's no reason to believe it.

Unless you're one of the 1% Super-Rich, of course, in which case you can do what the heck you like.
The 99% of the rest of London plainly have no rights at all.
Worse, you'll be called 'A Crustie'.

- Simon Short, Rochdale England, 16/11/2011 02:29
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In my experience the most effective way of removing anachist elements is via the deployment of high power cleaning and disinfection agents all around in the nearby vincinity. My extensive research proves that more than anything else these people hate the smell of pine disinfectant or anything else which purports to hygiene and cleanliness. Satisfactory results can be obtained within as little as twenty minutes.In my experience the most effective way of removing anachist elements is via the deployment of high power cleaning and disinfection agents all around in the nearby vincinity. My extensive research proves that more than anything else these people hate the smell of pine disinfectant or anything else which purports to hygiene and cleanliness. Satisfactory results can be obtained within as little as twenty minutes.

- Nicky Nichols, Borehamwood, Herts, UK, 16/11/2011 01:13
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Quite right too. Get rid of these Stinking, Soap Dodging, Yoghurt Knitting saddos. We've got 60 million people in this country, who cares what a couple of hundred losers think? Their 'spokesperson' was on the radio last week, it was farcical. She couldn't say what they stood for, didn't know what they wanted, except it must be different to what we've got now, and had no idea how to get there. Most impressive was the admission that after 10 days of discussions and deliberations, the only decision they'd made was to open a Co-op bank account to deal with the donations received from the public! Ha! Ha! At that rate they'll have a manifesto by the year 2932(ish).

- VInce, London, 15/11/2011 23:40
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The Daily Standard's contempt for the protesters shows it up for the cheap and nasty right wing pubblication that it is. A "chic" version of the Daily Mail with the same victorian bigotry towards anything that is not in the Tory/neoliberal mould. What a shame that its freely available, and having to see its filthy pages all over London. I for one will not be touching another copy unless I ran out of loo roll.

- Well well well, London, 15/11/2011 22:23
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Boris is an absolute joke who only gives a crap about his public school mates - the people who have robbed the rest of us blind. About time we moved the protests to more appropriate places - the public schools where these financial terrorists in the city are grown like bacteria on petri dishes. The bankers on here who agree with removing the protestors are showing what true anti-democratic thugs they are. Let's hope their greed brings them all down when the crash they created finally hits.
The rest of the 99% need to wake up and get informed. I'd suggest Matt Taibbi who writes for US Rolling Stone is a good place to start. Then you'll realise who the criminals are - and it's not a bunch of people sleeping in tents.

- Steve, London, 15/11/2011 21:34
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Boris having difficulties in removing people against his wishes, daer o dear

Still it doesn't matter if they're stinking the place out. Would you rather that or havesome nutcase Iranian terrorists blowing tube network, city sights etc up whilst campaigning for hatred towards the UK? Good old Ken will just sit there and allow London to become Tehran since his paymasters will continue to fund the cause from Iran, as well as the council tax payers paying double what they are now so he can help fly over hate preachers.

Isn't that right Ken? Priority number 1, look after the extremists over normal Londoners?

- Steve, Labourland, 15/11/2011 20:46
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Good for you Boris.

get them moved on, and soon.

- adam, UK, 15/11/2011 19:53
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@- Banker, City of London, 15/11/2011 14:18
Capitalism is trying to prevent people from protesting - the Police tried to stop people from buying tents, or did you not read about this?
I suppose your idea of capitalism is to allow Banks to do what they want?
As they are doing right now.

- Hutch, London UK, 15/11/2011 19:36
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Those who comment that the place smell like a toilet should remember that the City Corporation has introduced a charge to use the toilets in Paternoster Square which used to be free - These capitalists will charge for the air we breath next!!

- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 15/11/2011 18:48
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Boris and his educated mates have tied themselves up with all their stupid rules and regulations,your the only Crusty,! Boris.

- Davey_Buoy, Chertsey, 15/11/2011 17:45
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Banker City Of London,Your comment makes no sense,to disagree with a comment is not a sign of jealousy.

James J London.I think you'll find the problem we have at the moment is that we relied too much on money movers and disregarded manufacturing which produces the money.

- bazza, London, 15/11/2011 17:38
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"they are indeed restricting the highway."

Boris needs to get on his bike more.

The highway is restricted by bollards. Corporation bollards. If Boris wants to complain about restricting the highway then he should aim at the right target.

If he was on his bike Boris would see that the highway is not restricted for pedestrians and cyclists. They can pass the bollards and the camp easily.

- John, London, 15/11/2011 17:23
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Poor Boris is fixated on pork pies and cornish pasties at the moment, being on a diet, which is why the word 'crusty' is uppermost in his mind. The protestors are against laissez-faire capitalism, not just capitalism, and they are exactly right. Just because most of us don't want to live in a tent on the pavement doesn't mean we don't agree about the mess sh*t-faced rich people have made.

- Estel, Oxford, 15/11/2011 17:03
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So Boris you do not want to be elected next time. That is just fine with me but do no fret as the Cite bankers always look after there friends

- Louis Statham, Salisbury Wiltshire, 15/11/2011 16:55
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Tin foil hat
If there was someone better than Boris I would think about them, but, there is nobody, it's Boris for me. Do you wear a tin foil hat to stop messages from space getting to you? never mind there is a cure.

- peier, London, 15/11/2011 16:46
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Its about time the media got behind the people protesting the ineptitude of our financial barons instead of mocking them,who does the media represent the majority or just the chosen few who caused the chaos in the first place.

- Bazza, london, 15/11/2011 13:13
Well Bazza, Baroness Udin is certainly keeping her head down.

- Nora Kane, London, 15/11/2011 16:38
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I walk right past StPauls every day. A lot of the people there are just getting drunk,stoned or both and the place stinks of urine......nice.

- Mike, London, 15/11/2011 16:35
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If we had a police force and not some silly police service,also get idiots like Jenny Jones off their backs they could then deal with the smelly custies & clean the place up.

- peter, London, 15/11/2011 16:32
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How can these soap-dodgers afford to swan about messing up my once-proud city? Get a job. Make some money.

- John, Wapping, 15/11/2011 16:32
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Come on Boris, try ringing the local police and ask them to pop round to this lot ,if they have the time that is and tell them to P----s off and if they don't go, take them into custody on the grounds that there making the place look untidy. Years ago the police wouldn't have had to be asked they would have moved them on straight away . Still you can always contact that new man at the yard ----- or is he hiding , just waiting to be paid off .

- Hamilton Straker, Ealing West London, 15/11/2011 16:29
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@Tin Foil Hat, London UK, 15/11/2011 15:28

By you and what army? Despite all their delusions of grandeur the "Occupy" movement has only managed to mobilize a miniscule percentage of the population. Just a militant minority, with no clear aims, trying to enforce mob rule.

If the "Occupy" minority take their protests up a notch they will soon be crushed and any support they had from the real 99%, the real working and middle classes, will quickly fade away as they will not support anarchy.

If the real 99%, the proper tax-paying working and middle classes, decided to mobilize and insist on change then it would happen quite quickly. But this militant minority, trying to enforce change without the support of the masses are just peeing into the wind.

Maybe the Occupy movement should try coming up with a few policies and a clear way of implementing them. Maybe then they could convince the real 99% to support them. But right now the majority are happy to leave them sat in their tents making zero progress and getting slapped down by the police when they take things a step too far.

If the Occupy movement want change then they need to start appealing to all the "sheeple" (as they so fondly call the populace) with some sensibly defined policies.

- Jaseo, Bromley, 15/11/2011 16:20
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Bazza, london, 15/11/2011 14:27
Without the City’s contribution to our economy we could not afford the present level of welfare benefits.
A modern economy does not just rely on making things.

- James J, London, 15/11/2011 15:30
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You had all better start hoarding food and bottled water, because the system is finished. These protests are a foretaste of what is in store for the bankers and politicians. Enjoy your middle class lifestyle while it lasts, because the rug is about to be pulled from under your feet.

- Tin Foil Hat, London UK, 15/11/2011 15:28
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, Mr Johnson added: "The world sees a city where you protesters have the right to make your point, whatever it is, until such time that Parliament passes a law ... or until a judge frankly has the cojones to decide that they are indeed restricting the highway."

The law is already in place: Highways Act 1980.
The question is,why aren't the police enforcing it?

- Nora Kane, London, 15/11/2011 15:05
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"99% 99% 99%. Change the record. Even if it is true that 99% of wealth is in the hands of 1% of the population, so what?"

What a foolish comment. Some people really are just turkeys voting for Christmas.

- Trip Jarvis, London, 15/11/2011 14:53
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@bazza
Jealousy is a curse!

- Banker, City of London, 15/11/2011 14:48
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Alan England,I accept City workers may work hard as do many people,but I cant agree that they create our wealth they simply move money around,people who produce things are the creators of wealth.

- Bazza, london, 15/11/2011 14:27
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These static protests can’t be allowed to continue as they are not about the right to protest against government policy but just an excuse to gather together to indulge in some juvenile “Alternative Lifestyle”. It also must affect the protesters ability to be able to seek work so endanger their welfare payments.
How long would the EDL be allowed to set up camp before a convenient “Tweet” gave the police an excuse to smash a few heads and handcuff them as they did at the Red Lion pun a couple of days’ ago?

- James J, London, 15/11/2011 14:27
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@Hutch,
Capitalism allowed you to walk over to Blacks and purchase your tent!

- Banker, City of London, 15/11/2011 14:18
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I read at the weekend that members of the House of Lords get £300 a day tax free for attending. Even those that had been censured for their expenses in the past.
Yet we tax some poor individual who earns £10000 a year. I have sympathy with the protester but think they pick on the wrong targets. i read of one footballer who does not turn up for training gets £230000 approx. a week. another gets ten million a year. Racing drivers, golfers who earn millions but pay no tax here. People in the city work enormously long hours, pay tax here, they create our wealth and are usually burnt out at fifty.

Protesters should not camp put, but turn up each day in Parliament Square to hand out leaflets. They would get the support of every fair minded person.

- Alan ., England, 15/11/2011 14:08
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Well said Boris, you legend. It's high time that the crusties stopped leaching off the system and got jobs. It incenses me that I have to pay my taxes to support these idiots, who, it should be said, lead a pretty pointless existence. No matter what lefty-inculcated line they regurgitate, we’ve all heard their diatribe before. Idiots.

- VBA, Surrey, 15/11/2011 13:57
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99% 99% 99%. Change the record. Even if it is true that 99% of wealth is in the hands of 1% of the population, so what? The majority of the population do not support a bunch of nutters camping outside St Pauls.

The nutters might get more support if after all these weeks they could manage an agenda for change. All we get is he’s rich and I’m not and it aint fair.

- BJ, East London, 15/11/2011 13:36
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"Wish judges had the power to knock sense into idiotic voters who elect joke mayors more interested in photo opportunities than actually doing their job, who then get re-elected because said idiotic voters are more influenced by photo opportunities and baby kissing than actual ability to do job." - Dan, London

Wasn't that why Ken got voted out? People got fed up with him spending their money on vanity projects?

- Bob, Cheam, 15/11/2011 13:30
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Why are these people called anti-capitalist?
Makes them sound like a load of Commies so that a lot of people want them kicked out - like call an election, london, 15/11/2011 12:11

They are protesting economic inequality, social injustice, corporate greed, a lack of transparency and accountability in the City.
That is what a lot of people complain about here on the comments section every day ... so lots of people support the protesters it seems.

Now if you think Capitalism should be allowed to carry on as is and drop us all in it when the markets go "ti*s up" due to the greed of the Banks you are sad individuals.

Maybe a large Bank in this country should give the Police a $7.4 million donation (Google it)

- Hutch, London UK, 15/11/2011 13:14
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Its about time the media got behind the people protesting the ineptitude of our financial barons instead of mocking them,who does the media represent the majority or just the chosen few who caused the chaos in the first place.

- Bazza, london, 15/11/2011 13:13
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We need to listen to understand what these people are saying. Do they have a point?. Are too many decisions based on financial reasons rather then say service to the public? or for the public good?. The future will be the say of the 'social enterprise' where profit making companies give something back to the community.

We need a good deed bank, where people can see how much good a company or business has done....

- W.A., London, 15/11/2011 12:49
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I along with most Britons respect anybody's right to protest. Those that protest also have to respect the rights of the majority to carry on with their lives. I walked past St.Pauls last night and what is a beautiful and inspiring monument looked more like a homeless shelter. The area smells like a toilet and local businesses and residents are suffering. Long-term protests are not appropraite or effective. The majority see the protestors as a militant minority and dismiss them, whereas popular movements that include huge numbers of the population clearly express a real sentiment more clearly.

- Mark, London, 15/11/2011 12:34
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Bad news BoJo: it's you, and all the cronies who have reduced the planet to a state of war, terror and hunger who will be expelled - by the 99%. Time's up gentlemen: you are finished and you will be removed.

- Tin Foil Hat, London UK, 15/11/2011 12:30
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Londoners fought a war to save St Pauls so people would have the freedom to domostrate without fear of the nazi jackboot. - Heil Boris (well he does look arien or should that he Hairy one?).

Thats the real Boris speaking funny how smashing up pubs is OK!

- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 15/11/2011 12:24
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Wish judges had the power to knock sense into idiotic voters who elect joke mayors more interested in photo opportunities than actually doing their job, who then get re-elected because said idiotic voters are more influenced by photo opportunities and baby kissing than actual ability to do job.

- Dan, London, 15/11/2011 12:12
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USA making UK look like a toothless joke then in dealing with campers then ?

- call an election, london, 15/11/2011 12:11
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Boris seems to have no idea why people might be unhappy with our financial system - he is Buffon who is totally out of touch.

- Richard, Hoxton, 15/11/2011 12:10
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