Scuttle Brown’s Coal Plans

Andy Hewett, a London Green Party campaigner, came up with this slogan for the Kingsnorth protests, which helped capture Green Party presence in a number of outlets yesterday, including the Guardian, Metro, London Paper and this on BBC online.

Note how the layout works – four short words:

Scuttle
Brown’s
Coal
Plans

This makes it easy to make a placard, but best of course is that it is good line. We’ve had a few others, like the climate demo’s “Go solar, not ballistic” and “More wind, less CO2”. It’s a massive step forward from a few years back when rather embarrassingly one placard had six slogans on back and front as the committee involved didn’t wish to leave anyone’s suggestion out.

And much better than the bemusing “Contraction and Convergence NOW!”. (Or “over an agreed Period” perhaps?)

Well done then to Jonathan Essex and Andy Hewett for this.

More seriously, Stuart Jeffrey has just blogged about the ongoing disgraceful police behaviour. Caroline has been taking a lead in drawing attention to this.

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