DarloRich
Veteran Member
Lastly he has given the Greenpeace intervention the publicity they could only dream of. Front page tomorrow, prominent in the Sundays.
Agreed - there would have been less damage if Spreadsheet Phil had invited the lady to address the crowd. Instead the Greenpeace message is all over the media and without Parliament in session to deflect attention will remain so for a couple of days.
If you think that was pretty horrifying and that the reaction was violent, then you need to reassess your thoughts on what qualifies as horrifying and violent. There is plenty of proper horrifying and violent stuff that goes on in this world, but that was not one of them. This was not just someone walking past, this was a protester who no one could know whether they had an ulterior motive or not.
Whilst I agree it was not, in the grand scheme of things, massively violent it was fairly violent for the setting: A black tie dinner for the great and the good of the business world at the Mansion House. They didn't invite Mike Ashley. This wasn't the Yates fighting lodge you know!