Occupy Liverpool Love Activists Peace Camp during Cunard's birthday weekend.

   As over a million people converged on Liverpool's dockside to watch Cunard's Three Queens flagships float down the Mersey, under the Red Arrows fly past and to the sound of the pop music blaring out of the P.A speakers set up around the area, a small group of around thirty protestors sit in a camp on the Pier Head area just across the road from the Cunard Building itself.

The "Liverpool Love Activists" occupied the Bank of England branch in Liverpool last month and were part of a recent occupancy of McDonald's in Manchester. The activists are protesting about the Conservative austerity drive and it's impact on the homeless. Some of the members of the camp are ex-servicemen who have become homeless due to current government policy. They claim that homeless people in Liverpool are treated badly by the local police force, some times with violence. I asked her if they had complained, she said that "We had tried but nothing ever seemed to be done about it." Speaking to the Liverpool Echo the groups leader Juliet Edgar said "...Joe Anderson (Mayor of Liverpool) has been shoo-ing homeless people out of Liverpool for the Three Queens. It's out of order!"

Juliet told me the group had no plans of ending their occupancy until they are forcibly removed, she said "They came down about 8 O'clock last night (Sunday) threatening us with a court order, which they said they had obtained, but they didn't come back so they can't have had one in the first place."

Whilst I was with them I saw a handful of people asking the activists why they were spoiling everyone's fun, which seemed ironic as some of the younger activists were dancing along to the music coming from the P.A's. An onlooker I spoke to said to me "It's ironic isn't it! These people protesting in the middle of all this money being wasted. This country is a state."

N.B. By the way Liverpool Love Activists thanks for your hospitality and the sausage sandwich!