I think there’s a wider agenda and the right wing are pissed off with squatters/alternative types as a whole and with Tories back in power more willing to use strong force. Even Tescos are most likely acting as players in a wider political strategy game about the supremacy of private property rights and the free market, they can after all afford to have a shop smashed up.

The local Labour councillor was shoved out of the way by riot cops, she is an elected representative of the people and cops must realise she is going to complain to the media so it does seem like a show of strength, especially picking a time when pissed up townies are going to join in and nowadays its “cool to hate the pigs” even amongst pissheads, gary boys and consumer slaves

Avsom must clearly have expected a fight or some sort and expected cops to get injured, though often these injuries are stuff like grazed knees / or bizzare things “stress from being hissed and glared at by an angry tomcat..”

I don’t think anyone comes out of this smelling of roses though, not Tescos, not politicians, cops or the “bohemian” types in that area. It takes more than creating Banksy derivative works and taking/selling ketamine by the litre to create a proper alternative community and I still don’t like the concept of using property damage and the threat of violence to put someone out of business thats how British Asian owned shops were driven out by racists 30 years ago…