AND FINALLY

OeufFirst! A group of Turkish students threw off the yolk of economic repression yesterday, as they hurled eggs (clearly not a vegan vegence action) at a visibly (and hilariously) shell-shocked IMF representative. Obviously egged on by the enforced IMF bailouts of 2001 (see www.schnews.org.uk/sotw/states-of-unrest.htm) which actually made the country worse off than before the ‘help’, and then ushered in the inevitable sweeping privitisation of everything in sight and a decade of ‘growth’ fuelled by the ubiqitous mythical powers of cheap debt. While a load of well connected middle classes got richer from it all, it doesn’t seem to have helped the 15% unemployed, the third of Turks still working in agriculture on the breadline or the 20% of the population living in official poverty.

None of this background stuff was of interest to the BBC though, as they concentrated on the number of egg related puns they could pull off (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmeHP4jTeec).

Of course yer so serious SchNEWS would never do anything so crass.

Anyway, unfortuntely security guards quickly scrambled through the audience and probably whisked the egg-istentialists off for a light beating.