May Day 2010
The Black Horse of the Apocalypse leads protesters along Whitehall towards Parliament Square.
The annual May Day (International Worker’s Day) march from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square took place.
Also organised (by the organisers of the April Fool’s Day G20 demonstrations last year) were four carnival parades headed by the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. With the general election on May 6th, each of the parades ‘dragged’ an effigy of a political leader to Parliament Square to be symbolically ‘executed’. Gordon Brown (Labour Party), David Cameron (Conservative Party) and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat Party) were ‘dragged’ from their respective party headquarters by the red, silver and green horses, while the black horse ‘dragging' Nick Griffin (British National Party) joined the May Day March.
A party in Parliament Square took place with music, samba band and Maypole Dancing. Anarchists blocked the streets around Parliament Square. Unlike the G20 Protests last year, Policing was non confrontational and there was no violence.
Heavy rain brought an early end to the protest.
May Day 2010
The Black Horse of the Apocalypse leads protesters along Whitehall towards Parliament Square.
The annual May Day (International Worker’s Day) march from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square took place.
Also organised (by the organisers of the April Fool’s Day G20 demonstrations last year) were four carnival parades headed by the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. With the general election on May 6th, each of the parades ‘dragged’ an effigy of a political leader to Parliament Square to be symbolically ‘executed’. Gordon Brown (Labour Party), David Cameron (Conservative Party) and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat Party) were ‘dragged’ from their respective party headquarters by the red, silver and green horses, while the black horse ‘dragging' Nick Griffin (British National Party) joined the May Day March.
A party in Parliament Square took place with music, samba band and Maypole Dancing. Anarchists blocked the streets around Parliament Square. Unlike the G20 Protests last year, Policing was non confrontational and there was no violence.
Heavy rain brought an early end to the protest.