Why Occupy St Paul's is 99:1 destined to fail

Each day during my lunch break I find myself wandering over to St Paul's Cathedral, not through divine guidance, but because of the growing collection of tents called Occupy, drawing me like a moth to flame, a fly to poo.

This has led me obtain for myself a souvenir, a sign which reads, 'This is not an anticapitalist protest', except 'not' is crossed out. Then rewritten. Then underneath, someone has penned in 'Who are you to decide why we are here?'.

This is exactly why the protest will fail. Who knows what these people believe? Beneath the 'Capitalism is  Crisis' banner, holding my 'not an anticapitalist' sign, I see a sign reading, '1984 wasn't meant to be a manual'. 

How is it possible to confuse an over-leveraged state with the cold brutality of futuristic communism?

The protest is a maelstrom of calls for tax reform, end to cuts on libraries/students/the NHS and a war cry on banking. There is no discernible message which cuts through the fug of weed smoke. They need a leader like Bob Crow, Jesus or Ed Milliband, to help them rebrand their corporate image.

To try and understand why there is such a severe lack of organised motive in the Occupy LSX (by proxy not reality) movement Smutonomics undertook a survey: 

Why are you not joining the protesters outside St Paul's?

1% I am already a protester.

99% If I attend the protest, I will not be able to attend my scheduled Job Centre Plus meeting.

Hmm..

If socialist values amongst Occupy members are to find a political voice in the City then they have to be able to present themselves with a lot more coherency and solidarity. Unfortunately for them, it looks like they've already fudged it.