OneHourAhead

While you were all off practising your democratic rights yesterday, out here in the REAL world ANARCHY ensued. Well I say ANARCHY, really it was anarchy as the swiss don’t really do violence (which is strange really as they are all armed to the teeth - so it turns out Charlton Heston was right: guns DON’T kill people, idiot americans do)

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(not sure if that video will work but go here if it doesn’t)

This was all of course in aid of International Worker’s Day. I don’t quite see what smashing a window at McDonald’s before being shouted out by an old man (at which point the rioters seemed to back down) whilst the Lausanne police parade around in their shiny riot gear (which had obviously never been used before) has to do with international workers rights, but at least it let some socialists vent their anger (if you look at the video closely you’ll definitely see a fat, one-eyed scottish rioter crying and wailing at the world).

I unfortunately missed it all due to being utterly bourgeois and instead spending the afternoon i had off (because obviously you don’t work on International Worker’s Day) down by the lake having coffee at the Hotel Angleterre. Oh, the strain of the riviera life!

A more political and less gloating post will no doubt be forthcoming once the dust has settled from yesterday but I would like to say one thing now: Bloody well done to everyone involved.

Have a nice weekend.