Who's already bored of the G20 summit? I don't think I'd mind if I lived out of London, but as it is, it's disruptive and tiresome to say the very least.
I've navigated my way through umpteen road closures and endless diversions, I've never seen so many police cars (the contents of which glare at you as you go by, thereby making you feel instantly guilty for not doing anything), I've seen shops, business and hotels boarded up in a panic, I've heard from friends who've been told to dress down so they don't look like business people and I'm seeing streets that are normally chock-a-block, completely empty of cars due to parking suspensions.
I don't even recognise the city I'm living in.
Isn't this all a bit over the top? I remember a similar anti-capitalist thing some years ago, when you'd get emails at work saying razor blades had been inserted underneath the handrails on tube escalators and people were hijacking buses and spraying CS gas, and if you opened the Evening Standard at page 23 a boxing glove popped out and bopped you on the nose. All untrue, especially the last one of course, but that sums up the ridiculous level of hysteria that was abounding at the time.
I don't think anything will happen at all. You might get the odd crusty or overgrown student throwing their weight around, but that'll be all.
People love a good drama, don't they. Of course. I'll eat my words if all goes tits up.
