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IMITATION IS the sincerest form of flattery, but for those protesting about U2’s tax affairs yesterday, imitation was the sincerest form of mockery.

Dressed in a pair of wraparound shades and bearing a passing resemblance to U2 singer Bono, campaigner Paul O’Toole belted out a reworked version of Where the Streets Have no Name, with lyrics that expressed the kind of rage against perceived injustice that used to be U2’s stock-in-trade: “I know avoiding tax ain’t fair/It’s just because I’m a millionaire/I don’t need to pay like you/No, I won’t pay like you/Because I still haven’t learned about democracy/No I still haven’t learned about democracy”.