"People need to know why i was there today. It was a protest against the conservative party, a party who claim to be for hard workers. My mother passed away two years ago, she spent her whole life making sure that myself and my brother could get the education we needed. She was on tax credits. A while ago the conservative government tried to pass a bill cutting tax credits whilst claiming they were making work pay, in actuality they were increasing the rate at which the credits were cut with increased income. They are scrapping maintenance grants and raising tuition fees. It breaks my heart to think that I could be the last person to get in before the drawbridge is raised. This is a great country, and since the war it has been made greater by the principle of not leaving a man behind, because every person has talents that can be utilised, not just eaton oxbridge types. This is a party which is destroying any semblance of social mobility. And you want to know the saddest thing, my family are not the poorest of the poor. I can't imagine what other people have to put up with. My protest was messy and unplanned not because I had put less thought into it but because every day I try to fit myself into the box that society has made for me and at times I just can't take it. Today was one of those days."
1. See I like this because essentially: nobody goes to a Boris Johnson Vote Leave event with three eggs just to flash the eggs at Boris Johnson as some sort of vague threat, like, 'Hey, Boris, look at this! Yeah. Three eggs. Just wanted to remind you eggs exist.' Nobody. Nobody does that. When it comes to a question of intent – did Sam Griggs ever, in his honest student heart, intend to throw an egg at Boris Johnson? – then the answer is yes. He did. Because otherwise why have an egg. But here – surrounded by reporters and authority types – he reverts to a sheepish schoolboy, sliming his way out of a telling off. It's kind of majestic to see an adult human male do this. It's like a nature documentary. ↩2. Been watching this video all morning and typing the transcript out and let me tell you: extremely sincere questions and statements about eggs never, ever stop being funny. "Did you bring an egg?" "That was the point of the egg." "Did you want to throw an egg? Is this true?" Say the word again: egg, egg, egg. It's not a word anymore, it's not a concept. It's not anything. Egg. It's nothing. Egg. I bought three eggs. Egg. Why did you have an egg?↩