November 5 is generally a day full of explosives and fireworks, although things in London stepped up a notch as the Million Mask March protesters clashed with police.

The march is organised by Anonymous, ostensibly to campaign against austerity measures and ‘the surveillance state’. Whilst it begun rather peacefully at Trafalgar Square, tensions escalated and it wasn’t long before it became very heated. Here’s the Telegraph:

Clad in Guy Fawkes masks, some of the supporters of Anonymous, the anarchic hacking collective, lit fires and smoke bombs on the streets.

Hundreds of protesters lined up opposite riot police on horseback in Parliament Square. Some threw fireworks while calling for a “revolution”…

One break-away group set a police car alight, while others strayed from the permitted protest route and headed towards Buckingham Palace, where they threw missiles such as cones and fireworks at police horses.

Let’s take a look at some pictures of the evening from the Daily Mail:

I get the impression the Daily Mail weren’t all that taken with the protesters, summed up by this below:

Video footage taken tonight shows a protester, his face covered, smashing up a flaming police car near Green Park, in central London. Moments later, another activist climbs on top of the car and starts jumping up and down before being pulled away by a bystander.

It is understood the anti-capitalist protester was wearing a jacket worth hundreds of pounds as he carried out his campaign of destruction. The jacket, believed to be from brand Colmar, where padded jackets start at £260. He is believed to be wearing one that costs £475.

The people of Britain are angry, and with Anonymous proving rather efficient at mobilising the masses there could be more scenes like these in the coming months.

[sources:telegraph&dailymail]