I think it is unfair to say the British public 'can't even be bothered to turn out.' Demonstrations like this always get small numbers. This is in part due to the lack of money to advertise and organise. This campaign is being hugely successful. Oxford University and the government are on the ropes which is why they are attacking the movement at every opportunity in the media.

First they ignore you, then they attack you, then you win.

Vivisection; going, going.....

You obvioulsy don't have any real support for your silly protest. Why not try desecrating graves or something similiar?

Er, the activists you say don't care are the ones who stopped the construction in the first place. Maybe I missed something.

Could it be because a large number of people who supported the protests in the past became sick of the corruption within the various organising groups. Some examples ?

£10,000 spent on taxi fares
£7,500 spent on "exchange" visits to Portugal
£6,000 on "security" for senior staff

For many within the Oxford groups we felt our many had stolen. The disgusting way various long term members of the SHLS were left to hang out to dry when the police cam calling was another example.

I was in Oxford for the demo on Saturday (I made the effort and travelled 4 hours by coach from Cambridge) and regardless of numbers (I actually think 200 is an under estimate) I thought it was a great success for the people there. I travelled from Cambridge where the public are used to Animal Rights action taking place on a regular basis mainly anti-HLS. Oxford however gave the impression that it really did not know what to do with itself…obviously not seen too many Animal Rights demo’s in its time. There were police on anything that moved and the public seemed to shrink back to the walls of buildings rather than spectate and rally support as the Cambridge public do in response to some of the marches there have been here. And it is hardly suprising after all the awful press the media have given animal rights activists recently - making us all out to be extreamists even terrorists!
The day was a success because there was a march in the first place. The people of Oxford will learn and anyhow, the University still have to find someone to take the contract that Montpellier pulled out of last year. There is hope; a defeatist attitude certainly will not help!

The Telegraph daily shit rag has obviously wound up somebody who probably wasn't at the ox demo with their report claiming that only '200 demonstrators' were present, where in fact, more recent media reports have stated that 600 marched.


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