STOP THE WAR PROTEST

I'd say between 5 and 10 thousand protestors marched down Oxford Road, stopped for two minutes silence at the cenotaph in St Peters Square, before passing Manchester Central, stopping to boo, shout out and jeer at some delegates who had come out of the hall to observe the protest (with a few police to take some photographs of us all). The police were particularly interested in some anarchists with red and black flags, and I saw police harrassing a man who was carrying his own placard that read "I want cheaper war!".

Tony Benn spoke later, informing us he had recently seen the Russian Ambassador to tell him that there are a lot of British people who do not want war with Russia and who also see through the lies of our leaders. Was it Seamus Milne who told us that the number of MPs who secretly hate the wars is a lot larger than we are told, and that Miliband is not as loved as our press makes out? Arguably the best speaker was the nurse who was sacked for protesting cuts in the NHS while bankers are being bailed out with hundreds of billions.