#occupy London gets underway #ows

Greetings from India, keep up the great work

I can tell you the BBC are shitting themselves about this. I work at a regional sub station and there are a lot of arguments going on right now about the reporting. Lots of phone calls from editorial desk heads telling people to work on other stories. People at the Manchester and Cardiff offices are really pissed off right now.

Good luck to you all.

P.S. Maxine Mawinney is a complete bitch.

BBC London are saying the police and home office are warning the desk-heads that they are planning to leave the protest in place until 5pm tonight and will then attempt to remove them by force. Two journalists in London are being prepped to gloss over the fact that its illegal and the police can't act to remove people from private property like they can the public highway.

Ben Browne is the shift hatchet man.

I'm posting to this website secretly and they don't know its me.

Crikey, as soon as I started posting, a memo went round that we are not to engage with non-officialy sanctioned sites. But we monitor this site all the time so it doesn't count.

BBC head honcho in London is saying the police have promised the HO that the protest will be out of the way for Monday morning trading. Police are just waiting for the weather to "thin them out a bit", before they move in. Police seem to be saying its a dead cert no matter what but if violence happens the BBC should see it as a public order op and not anything else.

Current BBC orders are not to bring attention to the kettle or protesters being surrounded and not to report on public access problems at all, no matter who reports it.