Third Protest

Our third and final protest was planned for a Saturday. We had been advertising and publicising the event as much as possible in the run up and as a result we had a good turn out. Unfortunately the weather was awful and as a result the photographs taken that day were quite poor quality due to the camera lens getting so wet.
Our first cause was suggested by a bus driver, "LESS HOURS FOR JOHN THE BUS DRIVER". We were already getting lots of attention just by carrying the placards into town that day and, particularly because there were lots of younger people around, we had a lot more things shouted out at us as we marched. One man wanted to know who John was but we just continued chanting and marching.
When we reached the Cross there was a busker who did not take kindly to our protesting. The protest was changed to "DON'T PROTEST WITHOUT A REASON" and I photographed the next leg as we made our way up towards the town hall.

As they were marching and member of our group were joining us in a flash mob style two ladies also joined. This was a great result as it was what we had been aiming for when we decided to use a flash mob style approach to the protests.

The group continued to draw attention as they chanted outside the town hall.

The final part of the protest was "DON'T STOP ME IN THE STREET"t, suggested by one passer by  who was stopped for a suggestion. This chant caused a stir as we marched through town with people shouting things such as "excuse me, could I just stop you". At one point a police car pulled up and wound down a window but, after reading the posters, they drove away.

By the end of the protests everyone was soaking wet and part of our plan to pull in more people was to suggest going to the pub together afterwards. As we made our way to the pub we decided to chant "WE'RE GOING TO THE PUB" with blank placards.

 We picked up lots of people following behind us as we walked with a group of children chanting "WE'RE COMING WITH YOU". It was like a scene from a modern day pied piper!