There is something to be said about Britain that you can invade the grounds of Buckingham Palace and the chamber of the House of Commons and not be gunned down in a spray of bullets. Nobody got hurt in this week’s protests – thought they did outside Parliament of course – and they made their point.
So much utter nonsense and the usual invocation of Al-Qaeda has spewed forth that you’d think Osama Bin Laden’s next tactic would be thumbing through Marvel comics looking for that tight fitting suit that would be the basis of the next attack.
And the fact that one of the them was Brian Ferry’s son and another a member of the England polo team just rams home the absurdity of the situation. I do hope this doesn’t lead to a state of paranoia and government touting of the ‘terror’ card as a way of pushing real issues that effect people off to the side – as it has patently has here in the US – but I fear that is what will happen.
And it wasn’t the greatest attack on Parliament for 300 years as many have indicated – the Luftwaffe still retains that dubious honour, dating back to 1941.