Protesters using St Pauls for a latrine.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....tors-use-latrine.html

How much longer are the authorities prepared to play the 'softly,softly' approach, with these protesters?

They have made their point, the time as now come to say goodbye to this lot.

[DrFilth]

>> Cathedral spokesman, The Rev Rob Marshall, told the Sunday Times: 'We are aware of these kind of problems and raising them in our daily talks with camp members who we are not presuming at all are responsible.'<<

from your link, even the picture shows a camp protestor trying to clean the graffiti off the stonework

[rojash]

"St Paul's has blamed 'hangers on' and not protesters at the tented camp".

[anotheoldgit]

Then if it isn't the protesters who is responsible?

Funny that there wasn't a problem before they set up camp.

Credit due to that protester trying to clean off the graffiti though, but still no excuse for them still being in residence.

As I have said before, come next year and when the weather gets warmer, what's stopping hordes of campers descending onto the streets of London during the Jubilee and the Olympic celebrations, so as to set up tents and therefore gain cheap lodgings?

[Sonyme]

If the government were to publicly announce that a benefit investigation team will be visitng St. Pauls and interviewing the protesters. I think many would disappear overnight. How many are receiving benefits conditional on them actively seeking employment or making themselves available for work? No doubt there are some on varying levels of disability benefit because they are unable to walk more than ten paces or need assistance to climb steps, and how can anyone claim or receive housing benefit when they live in a tent?

[THECORBYLOON]

If any are on JSA and have declared in advance they will be away from home for a period, they need not be actively seeking employment. However, they must be willing and able to return immediately to accept a job or a job interview.

[Ann]

Turn the water cannons on them and wash both them and their excrement away! That is no way to get sympathy for their cause.........

[DTCwordfan]

Its about what The Church of England is fit for these days, latrines, with their lack of leadership over this and a wide range of issues which I have bored folk over.

Given that the County Council here is thinking of closing its public bogs, what an excellent idea......

[trapped]

Ann are you saying the church is lying

// St Paul's has blamed 'hangers on' and not protesters at the tented camp which closed one of London's most iconic attractions for a number of days last month.

Cathedral spokesman, The Rev Rob Marshall, told the Sunday Times: 'We are aware of these kind of problems and raising them in our daily talks with camp members who we are not presuming at all are responsible.'//

[DTCwordfan]

Why did the Church even close.....there are plenty of other doors aren't there that they could have opened for worshippers and visitors? If not then, there is a serious HSE issue that needs addressing

Yours confused.

[emmie]

when going past yesterday, its looks as though many of the walls of the surrounding buildings have been pasted with posters, leaflets, the type that are hard to remove, this is outside the camp itself, whoever is responsible should be made to clean them off.

[Brenden]

What and use their benefit monies em - in our dreams.

[emmie]

DT, no one should be using the streets as their personal lavatory,

[Ankou]

research by encams, an environmental charity, showed 95 percent of britons had urinated, vomited or defecated in public because no toilet was available.

public urination "is one of the unfortunate aspects of london''

[Kromovaracun]

"research by encams, an environmental charity, showed 95 percent of britons had urinated, vomited or defecated in public because no toilet was available. "

Well, technically that would include things like getting out of the car for a quick wee beside the road. Which most people have done. Not quite the same thing....

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Unless I've misread it, as others have said, the link does expressly say that the protestors have openly condemned acts of vandalism on the building. Which is referring to the graffiti but unless you want to be a total pedant I think we can safely assume probably applies to the defecation as well.

[Ankou]

kromo, my post was in response to :

"no one should be using the streets as their personal lavatory"

clearly a lot of people do.

[anotheoldgit]

DTcrosswordfan

/// Its about what The Church of England is fit for these days, latrines, ///

Then we ask what is wrong with society today?

Having read this post, one doesn't have to ask, it is blatantly obvious, some have no respect for themselves or anything else for that matter.

[Answerprancer]

I think people like AOG and Anne are out of their depth when it comes to intelligent informed (ie. NOT from the Daily Bogroll) responses to this.
GIT these people are excercising their right to peaceful protest, I've been there and milled about with them, listened to and watched what is going on and the last thing they want to do is leave a mess.
THEY DIDN'T DO THIS AND THE CHURCH IS ON THEIR SIDE - when will people like you and Anne get your thick DM influenced, narrow minded prejudiced heads out of your @rses ?

[Kromovaracun]

"They have made their point, the time as now come to say goodbye to this lot. "

I must say, this point might have some credibility if you hadn't been saying that the protest should be closed right from the moment it started - but you have so it doesn't.

[DTCwordfan]

what are you talking about AOG, the Church is completely out of date at the moment - they avoid issues and, indeed, they are part of the problem of the moral torpitude of this country, they provide no leadership and when an issue pops (gays vs hotels, crosses on folk on BA, gay bishops and a host of others) it is almost as if they are burying their heads in their own graves. The sooner Williams goes, the better.

em, I have not advocated using the streets as latrines, I advocated using St Pauls which would provide a better usage than its current offerings.....it is called being cynical. And then seriously, why did they close the doors on the cathedral to worshippers and visitors. Surely the main west door is not their only entrance.......