Despite everything that has happened over the past year, bankers are still getting bonuses, often at quite obscene levels, far in excess of most people's annual incomes.

Camilla, Tim, Simon and others had reworded some well-known pig songs for the occasion, including a number of hits by Miss Piggy, Pinky and Perky, The Simpsons and Piggy Pie, and in between sessions at the trough the pigs danced, sang and mimed to the tracks.

Familiar to all with is 'Lets Twist Again', once recorded by Pinky and Perky but which now became:
"Come on let's scam again
Like we did last summer
Come on let's scam again
Like we did last year
Come on let's scam again
Scamming time is here."

Chris Knight treated (if that's the correct word) us to his singing of the traditional labour movement song, 'The Man Who Waters the Workers Beer' but fortunately mainly kept to shouting out the news that 'Bonuses are Back' and inviting the homeward workers to come and swill in the trough, all provided at the taxpayers expense thanks to Gordon Brown.

City workers on their way home stopped in amazement and some tourists donned the latex masks provided and joined in while others simply photographed one of the slightly more unusual sights of London. The City of London Police (given the occasion it would be confusing to call them pigs) stood back and watched. Like most demonstrations it was unlikely to create any threat to public order without their intervention, and when I left around an hour and a half after the event started, there had been absolutely no problems.

More pictures on Demotix:
 http://www.demotix.com/news/city-pigs-wallow-bonuses-trough

and on My London Diary in a day or two.
 http://mylondondiary.co.uk/2009/07/jul.htm