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"Tamzin" <tamzincebula@DEFYMEtheponies.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> "David Hansen" <SENDdavidNOhSPAM@spidacom.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:31:09 +0100 someone who may be "Tamzin"
>> <tamzincebula@DEFYMEtheponies.freeserve.co.uk> wrote this:-
>>
>> >To be honest  I know as little about the
>> >issues involved in G8 and associated protests as I did 6 months ago,
>>
>> You have however been given the opportunity to find out.
>> http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/whatwewant/index.shtml is a
>> reasonable starting point.
>>
>
> The point is that I have decided that I don't want to know anything 
> because
> of the complete and utter disruption of my life being foisted upon me by 
> the
> protestors.  I might once have had sympathy with their views but now they
> have alienated me with their gleeful disregard of the huge problems I am
> going to have next week.  Apart from my weekend being ruined because I 
> won't
> be able to get to the yard, I am utterly dreading having to go to work in
> the city centre on Monday 4 July -  I don't know what this Campaign for 
> full
> fuckwittery is going to get up to and I'm very afraid of what they and the
> police might do to me if I am unwittingly caught up in a riot.  If I end 
> up
> being trapped at work by this I am going to be very very peeved.
>
> So I'll pass on learning about the issues concerned and mindlessly let the
> governments decide everything on my behalf.  Welcome to the apathy and
> alienation that all you protestors have created in the majority of 
> Edinburgh
> residents.  You only have yourselves to blame,
>
> Tamzin
>
It's buggering me about as well. I am going into hospital in Newcastle on 
Thursday for a bit of high tech laser surgery to zap my prostate. I get out 
on Saturday and return to Edinburgh by train, then my problem starts. No 
taxis will be allowed into the Waverly. Transport Police say that taxis will 
be in Calton Road but that entrance/exit is going to be closed. Whoever now 
runs the station contradicts that saying that the taxis will actually leave 
from somewhere in East Market Street and of course that entrance/exit will 
also be closed. I suggested that It might be better if I take the local 
train to Brunstane and get a bus back into Edinburgh from there. That was 
met with the fact that the station is going to divided by barriers into 
sections. My train would arrive at platform 10 and passengers will be 
"escorted" out via the ramp at platform 19 into Waverly Bridge and that 
anyone wanting to change trains will have to leave the station by that route 
and then queue up to re-enter the station by the ramp at platform 10. I 
asked if taxis would be outside the Balmoral and was told that no vehicles 
will be allowed into any part of Princes Street.
Seems that I will either have to find this mysterious taxi stance and be 
taken nome by the scenic route or walk round to North Bridge where LRT tell 
me busses will be allowed.
Derek.
Derek.