With even the police estimating 4,500 and the local paper placing the numbers at 6,000 yesterdays march in Brighton proved to be a very positive step on the road to building a serious opposition to the CON-DEM assault on our basic rights.

(  http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9392666.LIVE_UPDATES__Sussex_on_strike/ )

Passers by and shop workers applauded as the crowds marched past. Police were out in force protecting the tax dodging businesses of Churchill square shopping centre from any direct actions but the response from both strikers and passers by does seem to indicate that people are looking beyond the flood of nonsense spewed out by the BBC etc whereby the inconvenience of kids missing a days school has received a preposterous amount of coverage whilst the pensions issue itself is left to the mealy mouthed obfuscations of the CON-DEM and Labour ideological replicants.

(BTW I've never noticed parents reeling in shock and distress at the appalling inconvenience of the several days a year when my kids' school shuts for inset teacher training days but the old DK's paraphrase "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" epitomises contemporary media's reporting.)