Occupy London has just published its accounts, providing a fascinating insight into the camp outside St Paul's. Having done especially well in donations over the festive period, Occupy's bank balance, on 5 January, was £14,547.98. Just as well, because running a makeshift protest camp in the middle of the City is surprisingly expensive. Here are some of its costs from the past four weeks:
• Portable toilets "pump out" and cleaning products: £1,392.
• Food and cooking gas: £1,233.
• Travel costs (including attending debates, interviews and "meeting with bishop", court appearances, transporting generators, fuelling the "Tank of Ideas" used for Occupy Justice Day and a taxi at 3am after escorting a protester who had been arrested): £827.
• Setting up new tea tent: £80.
• Retrieving towed-away car: £172.
• Repair of rickshaw wheel broken on a march: £88.
• Inner tubes for rickshaw wheels: £15.30.
• Flyers and badges: £510.
• Fuel for generators: £296.
• Telecommunications, including dongles, setting up 0845 number and phone bills: £608.68.
• Paint remover for cleaning up the Tank of Ideas: £9.18.
• Stab-proof vests for "tranquillity" night watch volunteers: £200.
