Give to Caesar what is Caesar's

The frustration of the British people, whether you agree with (or understand) the Occupy protesters is illustrated by the camp outside St Paul's and has done so for two weeks.

However, having long since nucleated outside the cathedral, true to form, the Archbishop of Canterbury has given us his two cents, despite the protest almost coming to a conclusion in recent days.

I was previously unaware that the Bible had a section on macroeconomics but that doesn't stop Rowan telling us how things should be done. Down with Capitalism! The corporates have plundered our wealth and violated our young, ah, sorry, I stand corrected, that was the church.

Since when was the opinion of PhD graduate in theology granted pertinent to a debate about a debt crisis?

If we are to take anything from the pulpit into the commons, let it be this; 'Give to Caeser what is Caeser's and give to God what is God's'.

In other words, my olive skinned friends, how about paying some tax once in a while?

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.