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Paul's assessment of the whole G20 whiney vegan business:

"Personally I think it’s a load of hype about something that will lead to nothing… although I secretly would quite like to see a repeat of the May Day Liffe trading floor riots (when the story goes that 15/16 of the great unwashed tried to storm the trading floor and “take some people down” not realising that the Liffe floor housed rather a large number of East End wide boys with somewhat dodgy criminal connections and serious fighting experience, fuelled by adrenalin and a vast amount of drugs.

As the “rioters” ascended the escalator to gain access to the trading floor, fuelled with tofu and lentils - and probably a handful of pamphlets - they were met by what has been described to me as “big f*cking dave” who wasted no time in knocking each one out in turn and placing them back on the down escalator.

Cue a small pileup of “rioters” at the bottom of the escalator who didn’t even manage to step a single foot onto the actual floor)*.

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* This story was originally told to me by “Gambit” – a one armed broker from the Liffe trading floor who was apparently there at the time (the nickname was given to him by his fellow brokers… nice people that they are)."