Occupy London Stock Exchange - the first day of business

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Daily Telegraph

After the crowds at the weekend, the serious protesters are settling in. They may not be able to "Occupy the London Stock Exchange" but they are working on their camp - and their demands.

A quick call to the London Stock Exchange. How you doing after a weekend of protests, are you still besieged? “I can’t see anything: Paternoster Square is private property”.

A bill board at St Paul’s tube was just as curt: “Paternoster Square is private land. Any licence to the public to enter or cross this land is revoked forthwith... Any such entry will constitute a trespass.”

Iron crowd-control barriers block the entrance, re-enforced by a line of police, their riots vans ready. But the owners, Mitsubushi Estate, aren’t leaving it up to the Met: some beefy looking blokes in yellow jackets emblazoned with ‘Paternoster Square’ patrolled too. How long will the square be shut? “Dunno,” said one “Depends on the protesters, I think until December at least.”

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8831886/Occupy-London-Stock-Exchange-the-first-day-of-business.html

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LBN from the past 12 hours. Telegraph was the only uptodate link I could find.

[malthaussen]

1. Seemed like an even-handed report

Even if it was the Telegraph. And I agree with the comment that it is a sad thing that Paternoster Square is owned by something called "Mitsubushi Estates."

-- Mal