âDonât Let them Eat Brioche.â

Doesnât it make you proud? The Plucky British?
Celebrating St Georgeâs Day by starting a revolution demanding that the availability of cheap brioche be denied to them?
Brave Trustafarians rejecting the gated communities in which they grew up and demanding a kettled one?
Fighting the Agents of the State with just their bare petrol bombs?
Scorning the generous housing benefit that humiliated their parents and holding out for the right to proudly squat in someone elseâs rat infested derelict property indefinitely?
Existing below the poverty line on the insulting social security â and still managing to be âtoo fat to workâ ten years later.
The Guardian has published some absolute plums today.
â96% of the 700 people surveyed said they didnât want another supermarket.â
âOur objections clearly outlined how opening this Tesco store would pose a threat to public safety.â
âOur community is well known for having people who, if they are silenced, will act in a way that will ensure they will be heard.â
Ending with an out and out threat to public safety:
âBristol City council has a clear choice now: continue to let Tesco trade and risk last night becoming a regular occurrence or support the community it is supposed to represent and tell Tesco to leave.â
655 people threaten to firebomb Tesco again in the name of democracy.
âWe donât want no cheap briocheâ.
As the rest of Europe turns its eyes towards Britain today as we raise our National flag in homage to Saint George â you can hear the laughter from Cracow to Calais.
April
23, 2011 at 17:14
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I like to eat brioche. I like to buy resonably priced brioche. I like the
brioche I buy to be edible.
More reasons to shop at Morrisons.
Has
anybody bothered to find out how many of the protesters were opposed to Tescos
world domination plans and how many were just complaining about the shite they
sell.
April 23,
2011 at 15:45
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â655 people threaten to firebomb Tesco again in the name of
democracy.â
Honestly: Iâm not seeing the contradiction. The propensity
of democracy to devolve into armed paramilitary violence is well document, and
indeed weâve seen it recently in the Cote dâIvoire and Nigeria.
April 23, 2011 at 13:07
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Tescos are not a benign force, and not necessarily good neighbours â
whether or not thereâs a demand for them. Same goes for other supermarkets,
probably.
April 23,
2011 at 13:30
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Iâll take Tesco over the sort of neighbours that smash the place up and
set fire to my bins, thanksâ¦
April 23, 2011 at 13:53
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Amen to that Julia.
There arenât many things citizens are still able to do on this Island,
however legal and democratic means for preventing a store opening or
continuing operating via your local council is still one of those things.
Why doesnât the council reflect this supposed â96%â viewâ¦?
April
23, 2011 at 12:58
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One of the best parts of this is that the â96% of the 700 people surveyedâ
was a survey carried out on Twitterâ¦.
April 23, 2011 at 11:55
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Thereâs endless amusement in the shopping attitudes of anarchists. Surely
true anarchists knit their own yogurt, grow their own veg and never, ever dip
even a toe into the murky world of capitalism? So I think Tesco is seen as
provocative temptation, setting up shop opposite the glorious seat of the
revolution. How dare they take the piss out of these fine people in this
blatant way!
April 23, 2011 at 11:54
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Maybe not so niche, Julia:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1542634/Cameron-as-leader-of-the-Slightly-Silly-Party.html
April 23,
2011 at 11:59
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And that has what to do with a handful of soap-dodging would be
âanarchistsâ?
April 23, 2011 at 12:11
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Once more, apologies for being utterly incoherent. I understood you to
be saying that âsheer delight in destructionâ was the âniche outlookâ of
âa handful of soap-dodging would be âanarchistsââ.
The link I posted in reply was intended to point out that âsheer
delight in destructionâ is maybe a wider âniche outlookâ than you had
indicated.
April
23, 2011 at 13:29
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From that article: âThe Bullingdon modus operandi is to book a
restaurant under a false name, smash it up, and throw large amounts of
money at the upset owners â a form of behaviour which dates back to
Victorian times.â
I guess the cheque from the Bristolian rioters is in the post to
Tesco, then?
April 23, 2011 at 13:56
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Just because you pay for it, that excuses ââsheer delight in
destructionâ, the point you were originally making? Well, Iâll accept
mitigate, but itâs still criminal and âanarchistâ (again, your
original word). Iâll accept they probably had a good personal hygiene
regimen.
Aaah, now I get it! Money excuses everything!
April 23, 2011 at 13:30
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It only counts if it fits the sterotype of the feckless and workshy.
Toffee nosed nancy boys are exempt.
April 23, 2011 at 10:52
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I never buy Tesco brioche!
Passion fruit or butternut squash,
Runner
bean, juicy pear â
Iâll buy it elsewhere!
For the Co-opâs where I buy my
nosh.
April 23,
2011 at 11:06
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Itâs catching!
April 23, 2011 at 11:15
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The skill of constructing a verse,
Is one that Iâll have to
nurse.
When compiling reports,
The clientsâ retorts,
Tend to make
me averse.
April 23, 2011 at 11:16
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When stomachâs demanding itâs nosh
Thereâs no time to start acting
posh
It takes what it gets
Including the pets
And hamster goes
under the cosh
Disclaimer: Genuinely kind to animals
April 23, 2011 at 14:02
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I canât really see whatâs the matter
With a perfectly-cooked hamster
platter
But to keep yourself lean
Go for low-fat cuisine
And
donât deep-fry old Hammy in batter.
April 23, 2011 at 14:18
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My Hamster was extremely artistic
His exercise so very
simplistic
Fell asleep at the wheel
Got clipped on the heel
And
became another sad traffic statistic.
April 23, 2011 at 14:47
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With my own pets I tend not to bond
Which is good, for in fact
Iâm quite fond
Of a feline-based dish
Which is all you might
wish
If you like Chats au Briandâ¦
April 23, 2011 at 10:51
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Iâm ashamed to say I had to look up what brioche was. Having done so, Iâm
not really surprised they rioted â itâs quite obvious that they wanted Lardy
Cake instead (though why they didnât just ask the manager to stock some is a
bit beyond me). Still, as my mate from Swindon once said, theyâre a funny lot
in Bristolâ¦.
April 23, 2011 at 10:20
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Hooray itâs such fun in a squat
Thereâs Tarquins and Emmas a lot
With
Che on the wall
Itâs a debutantâs ball
And hampers from Daddy theyâve
got
April 23, 2011 at 10:02
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April
23, 2011 at 09:38
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If the people really donât want Tesco, there will be no customers
and the place will close within six months. Itâs called economics. On the
other hand, if the shop thrives we know the truth of all those âsurveysâ.
Petrol bombs not needed either way.
April 23, 2011 at 10:46
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Spot on.
April 23,
2011 at 09:33
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Makes you proud to be English â or maybe not.
April 23, 2011 at 09:14
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Zaphod thatâs spot on.
April 23, 2011 at 09:12
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If democracy fails you (which would appear to be the implication of the
Guardian piece), what are people supposed to do?
Thatâs a genuine question, by the way.
April 23,
2011 at 11:04
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Then the ones who donât want to shop there should boycott it, and if they
truly are in the majority, they will succeed. Simples!
But they arenât in the majority and whatâs more they know it!
April 23, 2011 at 11:18
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All very well, Julia, but I live in an area where the competition is
between Tesco Metro and Sainsburyâs Local. Not even a Lidle or an Aldi. If
I want to boycott them, itâs bus rides for me â more expense. There is no
alternative, except an expensive artisan cheese shop frequented by
tourists (and thus kept afloat).
Economics does govern where people shop â you should see the pensioners
gathered around the aisles in my two shops when food on its last sell-by
date is being marked down. Only large suppliers, like Tesco and
Sainsburyâs do that, and they squeeze out the independents. You just then
get a self-interested duopoly, where quality suffers, consumers suffer,
suppliers suffer and the only ones who really profit are the companiesâ
shareholders.
April
23, 2011 at 11:38
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âIf I want to boycott them, itâs bus rides for me â more expense.
â
If you want something badly enough, youâll sacrifice for it, as will
others. If you wonât, well, that should tell you something about your
cause, shouldnât it?
âEconomics does govern where people shop â you should see the
pensioners gathered around the aisles in my two shops when food on its
last sell-by date is being marked down. Only large suppliers, like Tesco
and Sainsburyâs do that, and they squeeze out the independents.â
So Sainsbury and Tesco are providing cheap affordable food for âthe
poorâ? Why, the utter bastards!
âYou just then get a self-interested duopoly, where quality
suffers, consumers suffer, suppliers suffer and the only ones who really
profit are the companiesâ shareholders.â
And the people buying that cheap, affordable food. Donât forget
them.
April 23, 2011 at 11:50
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I didnât make myself clear. Apologies. You say: âThen the ones who
donât want to shop there should boycott itâ. Iâm saying those
pensioners queuing donât have that choice. Or would you expect them to
âsacrifice for itâ and try to carry home bags full of shopping on a
bus?
âSainsbury and Tesco are providing cheap affordable food for âthe
poorâ⦠food they are not buying out of choice, food that is cheap
because it meets minimum standards. When pensionersâ savings are now
buying less because of inflation, you think thatâs all they deserve?
âAffordableâ food. Let them eat cake indeed.
April 23, 2011 at 17:59
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I think the consumers would suffer more were one of the supermarkets
to close- and if that happened and the remaining one took advantage,
well that would present ann opportunity for fresh competition.
April 24, 2011 at 22:47
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âFood that is cheap because it meets minimum standardsâ, what does
this mean ? I can see no evidence that Tesco or Sainsbury produce is
is in any way inferior to that offered by any other store, itâs rather
better than some, the Co-0p in particular. How could cheap food be
supplied to those on a low income in any other way than meeting
minimum standards, whatever they may be ? If you can think of some way
of providing very high quality food at low prices Iâm sure the
supermarkets would love to hear about it.
April 23, 2011 at 21:55
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gladiolys â itâs also a good question. And Iâm afraid that while the rest
of us sit and blog about greedy politicians, reckless bankers, arrogant
local authorities and all of the other dictatorial, interfering, meddling,
bureaucratic state institutions riding roughshod over our lives, the Bristol
rioters â whatever their motivation may have been â provided the only real
answer. I thought Richard Northâs piece on the disturbance accurately
portrayed the tension central to your question.
I came pretty close to apparently senseless violence myself this morning
when I read about the £100 million windfall to the energy companies via the
simple expedient of mothballing power stations and sacking their workers. No
doubt weâll grumble about it before obediently coughing up yet another £100
mill and then continue to lay into the feckless, the workshy and the taxes
we contribute to the welfare billâ¦
April 23, 2011 at 08:56
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If civil war erupts over this, Iâll be on Tescoâs side.
I vote for Tesco every time I shop there. Thatâs real democracy!
April 23, 2011 at 09:18
April 23,
2011 at 10:55
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As was endlessly pointed out on Twitter yesterday, if there truly IS a
majority in favour of having no Tesco, then theyâll go out of business
there, wonât they?
But what they are really afraid of is being exposed for the
unrepresentative tiny minority that they really areâ¦
April 24, 2011 at 09:37
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There you go again with this Twitter nonsense. Why do people hold what
is âendlessly pointed out on Twitterâ in such great store. It would appear
that anyone who scours twitter all day for their information, has nothing
else better to do.
April 23, 2011 at 08:48
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People get up at 7am to work hard and pay insane amounts of tax so that
other people can be paid to be feckless underclass.
It is so depressing.
So very depressing.
April 23, 2011 at 08:28
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Is it St Georgeâs day? I didnât even know!
April 23, 2011 at 08:17
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XX As the rest of Europe turns its eyes towards Britain today as we raise
our National flag in homage to Saint George â you can hear the laughter from
Cracow to Calais. XX
WTF has St George to do with Britain?
April 23, 2011 at 11:33
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St George for England! St Pancras for Scotland.
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