The arrest of Class War’s candidate for Chingford, Lisa Mckenzie
A little behind the time (as usual) I have at last finished upload my pictures from April 2015 on to My London Dairy.
April may only have 30 days, but it was a long month for me, with 45 stories on My London Diary and getting it all on-line has certainly dragged out. And out. Partly it was extra busy because of the coming election, and also I’m still feeling a sense of despondency over the election result which has made it hard at times to get down to work. Not that I think for a moment life would have been entirely rosy under a Labour majority or minority government, but that it would certainly have been a little more promising.
As we move to celebrating (perhaps incorrectly) the signing of Magna Carta as a milestone if not the foundation of democracy, it’s ironic that we also go into a new government elected on a vote of 37% under what must be the least democratic election system in the free world.
We are fortunate in the UK to live under a relatively benign rule, where – at least within certain limits – protest is allowed, and Magna Carta was certainly important in establishing the basis of the rule of law – at least for barons.
Apr 2015
Gurkhas demand fair pensions on 200th
Peace Picket in Parliament Square
NHS banner on Westminster Bridge
‘7 Days to Save our NHS’ Campaign launch
Buck Palace Class War Manifesto Launch
Hotel Workers – Workers Memorial Day
Free Yarl’s Wood Anna from Holloway
Qatar Slave Labour deaths – World Cup 2022
London Black Revs ‘Reclaim Brixton ‘march
Reclaim Brixton celebrates Brixton
Take Back Brixton against gentrification
Brixton Arches tenants protest eviction
Aylesbury Estate Open Day
Ten Days of Rage for Ahwazi Intifada
Checkpoint Care at UCH
Royal College of Art living wage protest
Earth Day protest at Drax AGM
Property Awards at Mayfair Hotel
Cyclists Die-in for Moira Gemmill
Westfield ‘Save our NHS’ protest
BP die-in against Climate Change
KFC protest over TTIP
Stop TTIP rally
Tweed Cycle Ride
Football Action Network Manifesto
Centenary of Armenian Genocide
Class War Poor Doors 28
No More Deaths on our Streets
Fast Food Rights at McDonald’s
Bring Back Our Girls
Checkpoint Care – Docs Not Cops
Vote Out Trident
Heathrow Villages fight for survival
End Immigration Detention
Illegal Security blocks St James occupation
Class War keeps up Poor Door protests
Walking the Darent Way
Good Friday in Staines
Chingford candidate arrested at Poor Doors
Shame on Sheraton – Hotel Workers
Stations of the Cross Pilgrimage
Free the Palestinian Children
Admiralty Arch Occupied by A.N.A.L.
Sweets Way at Annington Homes
Shut Guantánamo!
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In April 2015, this site, http://re-photo.co.uk had 240,151 page views (8000 per day), with the average visitor spending 1.5 minutes on the site and looking at 2.16 pages. Site analysis for My London Diary is harder as its pages can be accessed under several domains, but taking the three I think are most popular it got 133,859 page views (just under 3,900 per day.) My other photography sites, some of which also have work by other photographers got around 110,000 views.
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