‘Eat Bankers For Breakfast’. At 7 am this morning the great pin-stripe banquet was due to start as protestors gathered outside the London Stock Exchange intent on disrupting the day’s business. After four hours, only a handful of hungry suit-scoffers had gathered under the slogan and their meagre buffet was being supervised by hundreds of idle cops. Meanwhile, the market delivered its verdict on the prandial protest and yesterday’s quiet riot: the FTSE surged through 4000 and the Bank of England’s three-monthly report confirmed that credit conditions were easing and that mortgage approvals were up.
Over at docklands, the Excel Centre had been sealed off and sealed off again. Two separate cordons, several hundred yards apart, ensured that no one with a placard or a clown-mask would get within egg-chucking distance of the G20 leaders as they arrived in their heavy-metal containers.
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