Sunflowers painting targeted by activists.

The soup slingers are named Anna and Phoebe

I wouldnt like to commit either way. I havent checked the news in the last 30 seconds.

volver

When your post started with the phrase "Speaking as a man of colour, I think....", it implied that the person posting was a man of colour. That's all.

I don’t get your point Volver - it was obvious I was talking about Cleverly.
This is not Pedants’ Corner, or is it?

It was just an offhand comment Maw,I just thought it might amuse. I think at least one other Gran understood it as I did, so it wasn't that obvious. It became obvious once I'd read your post a couple of times.

You didn't need to post a picture. I know who the Home Foreign Secretary is.

MawtheMerrier

My bad - should have said Foreign Sec

It’s ok Maw they will be installing revolving doors at No.10 any day now ???

Thank God I changed my mind about posting a jokey post telling volver off for assuming posters gender

Yes, we're not doing humour today Galaxy ?

Do we know for a fact that the protestors are middle class with networks, connections and wealthy families?

As for the consequences being different if the protestors were black/poor/whatever....well how different could the consequences be? The protesters have been stopped, charged and appeared in court yesterday. The same would have happened to whoever made the protest.

We seem to tell ourselves stories around these actions: -
The people were middle class
The police didn't act
The protestors don't know what they want

It's not true. Why do we do this when the facts are readily available?

Why do we seek to put down young people who want to make change? Young people who tell us (as we ourselves know) that conventional ways of making change don't work? You can write to your MP until you're blue in the face, but if they don't reply, then what??? Imagine you're young, your whole life ahead of you, you read about animal cruelty, about 70% of all animal life being lost since the 1970s, you wonder what life will be like for you when you are 60....what do you do?

What would you have them do?

Hands up. Yes, I thought that it was an amusing grammatical error too.
Nothing wrong with that (making it or noticing it)

The consequences would be very different depending on income/class as with many things in life, we can pretend that's not true if we want but it's not accurate. I dont know what I think about this form of protest to be honest, I am not especially outraged but I am not going to pretend that consequences of behaviour arent impacted by class/income.
Sometimes the middle class cheer on behaviour that has absolutely terrible consequences for those not so privileged.

Galaxy

The consequences would be very different depending on income/class as with many things in life, we can pretend that's not true if we want but it's not accurate. I dont know what I think about this form of protest to be honest, I am not especially outraged but I am not going to pretend that consequences of behaviour arent impacted by class/income.
Sometimes the middle class cheer on behaviour that has absolutely terrible consequences for those not so privileged.

RichmondPark asked the question:

"Do we know for a fact that the protestors are middle class with networks, connections and wealthy families?"

Are you assuming that they are, Galaxy, or do you know for a fact that they are?

How would they have been treated differently if they were working class?

they did use heinz instead of value soup

JaneJudge

they did use heinz instead of value soup

OMG! Is heinz posh soup now?

I though that was Baxters...

P.S Wouldn't they have seemed more middle class if they'd used Campbells with, y'know, its reference to another artist...

If JaneJudge ever leaves Gransnet I'm outta here.

gosh that's very kind RichmondPark1

It reminded me of a rhyme I was taught as a child

to market, to market, with my brother Tim
Someone threw a tomato at him
tomatoes don't hurt they have a soft skin
this bugger did, it came in a tin

#working class

In all seriousness MaizieD Heinz tomato soup with some toast is a good lunch for someone in my factory and well, when people queue up for tinned food at our town food bank they'd be happy with Heinz - I'm a bit upset it is wasted on a painting. Though we all know Vincent Van Gough was impoverished and mentally unwell anyway

volver

Yes, we're not doing humour today Galaxy ?

Now that should be in pendants corner ?

what sort of pendant? a Heinz soup one

www.dragondreads.co.uk/products/heniz-soup-necklace

I have no idea of their class, I am guessing people are making assumptions based on accents. I was responding to the idea of class having no impact. Criminal convictions and the consequences of them are impacted by peoples class. As does the money available for legal support, the financial situation if you lose your job etc. People cant not know this surely.

You are quite right Galaxy. The charge can be the same but the outcome very different. Well put.

the charge often isn't the same though
poorer people get charged with crime more quickly because they admit to them and have no representation and no money
and middle class children have back up straight away and often don't get as far as being charged

JaneJudge

what sort of pendant? a Heinz soup one

www.dragondreads.co.uk/products/heniz-soup-necklace

?

they also have back up from their former school/a levels to say how passionate they were about said subject

working class children love the planet but have to wash up/work for McDonalds etc whilst at college

It's weird that the threads about going into a supermarket clad in your pjs stirs up more angst.

I was a working class kid who loved the planet. I worked part time in Woolworths and in a pub in the evening to get through college but I also went on marches, did leaflet drops, collected signatures for petitions and protested for CND, Compassion in World Farming and other causes dear to my heart.

The two aren't mutually exclusive.