Anti-war campaigners were refused access to Downing Street to deliver a letter calling for troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan.
About 100 demonstrators crossed Whitehall on Monday to take up a position in front of the gates leading into the street and a group of four protest organisers were told they would not be allowed access to hand the letter in to No 10.
Jeremy Corbyn MP and veteran peace campaigner Tony Benn were among the group hoping to take the letter to Downing Street but they were told it had "been decided" they would not be allowed in. The rally was organised by the Stop the War Coalition to mark the death toll of British military personnel in Afghanistan, which has surpassed that of troops in Iraq.
Perhaps in a few month's time there will be thousands wishing to hand a similar letter into Downing Street. Will they also be refused?
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Hitler's bunker was eventually breached. Where is Marshall Suchov when you need him? I see this got enormous coverage on The BBC. They get access all the time.
I didn't see much news last night OR. Of course the BBC get access - they don't want to upset their broadcasting propaganda machine do they.
Ah, Georgi Zhukov. What a guy. Y'know, Beria tried to take him down but Stalin, just for once, would allow it - posted him to be miiltary commander of somewere small just to get him out of the limelight - punishment for being too famous. GZ had the laugh on Beria though as he it was who arrested him after the death of JVS. beria ddin't live long enough after that to profit from that lesson.
The bunker will be breached though. There is a change in the public mood. A big one.
Woulndn't allow it. Sorry.
Rosy m'dear, I have been thinking for a while (don't get alarmed - trust you are sitting) that the Palace of Westminster does things to people. I have visited it as a member of the opublic - sat in what used to be called the 'Strangers' Gallery' when Thatcher was dissing Kinnochio. It is an awesome builing.
When I was young and naive (last year) I thought that it would subdue those elected to be there with its magnificence. I was wrong. Yes, again. Umpteenth time for everything. Instead, it imbues them with a (false - really? - surely not) sense of their own magnificence, their own power and separateness from the herd.
They must be cleared out - all of them. Their succesors should be made to meet in Nissen Huts, or Nissan cars to remind them of their worth, i.e. none.
Jim, what can I add? I too have visited the place and the grand-standing was everywhere.
They are treated as the creme de la creme of our land and most are quite unworthy of that title.
Nissan huts? That's fine as long as they don't use Scout huts. I go to play with acrylics in one of those now and again.
Jim I can't believe you were ever naive. After all I think you were brought up in Glasgow. :)
Granstanding. Quite so. Instead of thinking this magnificent building belongs to the people they think this magnificent building belongs to me.
Nissen huts, sweetie, with an 'e'. Nissan cars with an 'a'. That was the joke. Sigh, S'I.
Ooops Jim, not quite with it yet today I don't think. I've never owned a Nissan car so can't comment except to say they've never appealed to me.
Right, back to work!
Watched 'Taking Liberties' on ITV 3last night and wept.
There seems that no turn for dissent or articulate challenge has been left untainted by the combined forces of the Labour driven Stazi-state backed (and encouraged) by police storm-troopers. Little old gentlemen in their 80s being man-handled to the ground and arrested for wearing t-shirts with an anti-arms dealer message - and police using the well-known legal precedent of sticky mud forever contaminating the proven innocent to years of unwarranted harrassment - Hitler would be proud.
I waiting to see the next incarnation of social control in this prison nation of CCTV, ID, DNA, satellite tracking, Health and Safety(!), anti-terrorism laws etc. - a la Robespierres' Commission for Public Safety terror - why not? We are being fed whatever it takes, including Swine Flu, "crucibles" in Afghanistan (haven't our political crooks not heard that the internet doesn't need to be geographically sited to exert its effect backed with the use of these new fangled mobile phone thingies to promote just about anything?), the need for old ladies to remove their shoes and cardies at airport security as danger could lurk anyplace, anywhere anytime (did MI5 take their ethos from Martini Rosso adverts?)- not forgetting the media's role in propaganda.
I hope JB is correct that the wheel is turning - but remember the 100s of 1000s that demonstrated against the Iraq invasion that were completely ignored?
Democracy is still trapped under that slow turning wheel JB, its needs much more momentum to turn faster and release us - but there is still no sight of an advanced driver to engage the correct gear - yet!
Apologies for garbled comment, I am so exasperated and angry and I can't find the name of Zhukov's famous Akhalteke stallion.
@Clarinda
Who are you my dear? May I buy you a glass of wine? I have already offered to do the same for Rosy and she is rightfully cautious in accepting, even though (because?( she knows who I really am (I told her) and what my real name is. I like women who are rightfully cautious. They turn me on. As do women who throw caution to the winds. Oh, OK, women then. Happy now?
We are on the turn OK. I know because I didn't before and I am everybody. It's a trial, but somebody's got to do it.
I have no comment to make at the moment as I've no wish to intrude upon the intercourse between Clarinda and Jim. :)
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