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Recent Articles about Bristol ProtestsMeet the Author - Tim Gee - Counterpower Dec 21 11 Meet the Author - Selma Dabbagh "Out of It" Dec 21 11 Picket the Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the year Exhibition Dec 15 11 Police Use CS Spray on 14 year old Boy after Strike Rally as Santa Arrested![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the early hours of Wednesday November 30th some naughty elves dropped banners over every entry route in to Bristol City Centre bearing slogans including 'N30 Strike', 'No Cuts In Bristol', Stay Warm This Xmas – Burn The Rich” and 'Oi Scabs, You're On The Naughty List' ensuring no one was unaware of the big day.
Then with festive cheer 200 people left the rally and marched through Broadmead stopping at Vodafone, Barclays, Boots, Marks and Spencer, Topshop, TK Maxx, Savers, Tesco, and the 'meet your local police' kiosk in the Galleries. There are numerous reasons for these companies to be on the naughty list this year, many of them are responsible for dodging billions of pounds worth of tax while pensions, housing benefit, legal aid, and many other vital services are being cut, others for signing letters to state their support of these cruel government cuts, and the police, well they proved exactly why they're on the naughty list during the demonstration.
An legal observer later commented "During the peaceful Santa Uncut action earlier today police arrested Santa because he couldn't prove he WASN'T someone else (yeah we hadn't heard of that offence either). In some of the most bizarre protest scenes in awhile, police proceeded to nearly run over an elf before pepper spraying several of Santa's helpers." In a sign of solidarity with both the Santa and Huw 'Badger' Norfolk (who the police had mistaken santa for) the march continued defiantly to Trinity Road police station, taking a detour past the Evening Post building singing 'I'd rather be a Badger than a cop' and waited outside.
Inside the police station Santa was treated as some sort of spectacle with every officer in the station including CID coming to stare at him, slap each other on the back and even (they admitted) placing bets on the outcome of the finger print check. In the Cells Santa was forced to remove is top to show his chest to the officers while Santa's solicitor had to complain about why he had not been able to see his client yet.
Santa was release without charge and a warning that he was likely to be arrested again should he continue to look like someone else.
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