Switch on or a big switch off?

I finished work today and decided to go along to see the Oxford Street Christmas lights switch on.

I made it towards the main stage at around about a quarter to six. The switch on was set for 18:17 (something to do with news coverage) but already I couldn't even vaguely get close to where the action was. The crowd was so densely packed, I didn't stand a chance.

Neither did the hundreds or thousands more who arrived after me.

Such a big crowd and the stage from where the performers and light switch on was happening was recessed between two departments stores so that only people directly in front of it had any chance of seeing what was going on. Wise move(!)

And guess what, no big screens to convey any of it to the crowd at all. Way to go with mis-organisation!!

It was a complete bollocks job, quite frankly. Lots of people must have walked away, very disappointed.