646 All Out!

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Those of you that aren’t reading this via RSS may have noticed a little logo that has appeared over on the right hand side.

646 All Out!

It’s a little campaign I’m trying to launch which I think might appeal to anyone that may happen to be reading here. I shall simply repeat here what I’ve said there and hope that if the idea appeals to you, that you’ll maybe spread the word a bit and maybe lend a hand in anyway you can.


“646 All out!” is a non-affiliated independent campaign, that receives no funding from anyone. This is not an anti-politics site nor is it in favour of people disconnecting from the political process – quite the reverse in fact. “646 All out!” is in favour of everyone exercising their right to vote and believes that there is no such thing as a wasted vote. That said we’ve seen no evidence that any of the current incumbents are fit for office, and believe that the purposes of democracy would be best served if they were all removed and no candidate from any of the major parties returned.
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Servants of the people?

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A bit of not so local news, which really isn’t terribly surprising but that’s worth highlighting anyway. News reaches me that due to police objections Strawbery fair is to be cancelled this year. The organizers say:

“Cambridgeshire Police have made it absolutely clear they do not want the event to go ahead and have put an incredible amount of time and resource into preventing it. We feel the police action shows just how far out of step they are with the people of Cambridge, who have shown overwhelming support for the event; and had the same enthusiasm been spent on working with us rather than fighting us, many of the key concerns would have been dealt with.”

Which seems an increasingly common approach from the police towards “small” independent festivals and events that don’t have big corporate sponsorship. Given that this fair has been happening since 1974 at around the same time it’s not as though the police didn’t have ample time if they hadn’t want to stop it happening. So whilst I suspect that this is probably just due to local jobsworths and kill joys on the police force (I imagine them sucking their teeth and going “ooh it’ll cost you, can’t get the parts you see”). I also can’t help but see it as part of the wider picture of the destruction of places and events were people can meet up and socialise outside of state and corporate control, as discussed previously here and at length and in much better detail by LegIron

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We’ve taken care of everything – The words you hear, the songs you sing

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Not quite the thought police but step by step we’re getting there. The Portsmouth News (Via The Register) is reporting a musician who was taken off a train to explain a song list he was writing which was read over his shoulder by (presumably actual) transport police.

Though at least this time they didn’t use the terrorism excuse but instead it was because there had “been a ‘number of arrests’ nearby including one man who had killed his wife.“. It’s probably just as well he wasn’t in a folk group, anyone singing traditional ditties staggering home tonight had best be careful.

On the bright side at least he didn’t have a camera with him, then he’d have been in real trouble.

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