London From The Top Deck
"We need", said my friend Cilius, "a revolution. This is outrageous!" Not the normal reaction to the commentary aboard one of those open-top tourist buses that Londoners are familiar with, but an understandable response to the information that huge parts of the central of town are owned by one family, the Grosvenors. Perhaps the tour should be included in cadre-building by the Trot groups - some of the detail intended to impress American visitors will make any vaguely liberal Briton's blood boil.
For years, a group of us have been talking about buying tickts for a touist bus and seeing London from an entirely different perspective and today we finally found the time to do so. Check out the photos below - you can find more on Flickr.
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Need to organise an alternative history of London...Labour movement orientated and all that jazz.
Nah, including it in cadre-building for Trots would only cause the self-imposed leaders of Brits finest 'ard left to organise paper sales by the bus. Fink of the poor cadre selling papers on a Saturday morning when they could be doing something more worthwhile like watching paint dry or snoozing....
But I like the revolution bit and the pix!! :)
That's so weird - we were talking today about how great it would be if we could hire a bus and get our mate Dave Rosenberg to do the commentary. His Radical East End walking tours are brilliant.
By the way, did you know that there is a UCATT statue in memory of building workers killed at work and it's right in front of the Tower of London?
"By the way, did you know that there is a UCATT statue in memory of building workers killed at work and it's right in front of the Tower of London?"
Yeah, that's where we usually meet for Workers' Memorial Day demo.
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