A comrade from the Midlands

A comrade from the Midlands reports:Myself and a fellow party member visited the Occupy Birningham protest today.  To be quite frank they nearly drove me mad with boredom.  ‘Underwhelmed’ does not even get off the mark as a description of how I felt upon bidding them goodbye.  There were three very nice prim and proper youngsters from the ‘Food not Bombs’ campaign who were dishing out ‘reclaimed food’ and a few confused types who seem to be groping at some solutions to the vagaries of capitalism.  One guy quite earnestly told me in no uncertain terms we should all strive to be capitalist when I suggested a moneyless, stateless, leaderless world in common.  He said – “Look Man, I am a capitalist, we should all have the chance to be capitalists.”  Another woman told me she was simply ‘against everything’ and while we gave a free copy of Ron Cook’s Yes Utopia to another chap he said – “hey, I don’t dig politics, it’s the environment I care about!”