We started off this morning by taking a broom and walking around the streets singing "Sweep poverty away". I'm very cynical about this. I live in Edinburgh and I hate seeing all these people. They come out of the train station and get given placards and they probably don't know what they say. I think they do this just to feel good, so they can say tomorrow or in 20 years that I walked up a hill in Edinburgh, aren't I a good person? It makes me angry, it really does.
What we've done is taken two placards, and put them together in a different way. The line that says "World's number one terrorist" from the George Bush one and put it over a crying African child. The bit from that poster about being a victim of debt is above George Bush. I'd like people to come up and argue with us, but I imagine we'll just get abuse - especially for calling an African child a terrorist. People won't like that. After that, we'll probably go to the pub.
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